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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Superposition.

Remember that scary sounding word from quantum mechanics? Well, it’s not really that scary. Waves can add up to form a “super wave” that is really just the same as multiple different waves at the same time.

It’s just like how a chord is just two or more notes played at the same time.

And that’s precisely how our ears experience sound. The drum can only report one frequency at a time. What you’re hearing is a superposition of all the individual waves.

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