How are headphones with single drivers able to make sounds that are “multiple sounds at the same time?´´

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So from what I know, the drivers vibrate at a given wavelength and that makes a sound. That makes sense to me of how you can create voice for example. But how does multiple instruments + voice in one driver work? You hear all them seperately but at the same time?

To me this sounds like a monitor pixel making more than 1 pixel at once.

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I think you might be confusing an object’s natural vibration modes with a *driven* loudspeaker. The natural one(s) are due to physics and elasticity, etc.

But a driven loudspeaker is moving in response to the electrical signal being fed to it. Feed a simple high frequency sound and it will vibrate fast. Low, also low. Feeding it a complex audio signal makes it vibrate in a way that replicates the sounds that created that audio signal.

How your ear and brain perceive sound based on the vibrations of your ear is a separate question, but it doesn’t sound like you have confusion of how you can hear multiple things directly.

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