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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You can simply add two sinus waves together. Or three. Or a million. It still results in a single new wave, containing all the information. That’s what sound is. At a given point in space there can always be just a single wave. Same thing with sound drivers. They don’t output a sinus wave, they output a really complicated wave that contains thousands of different sinus waves

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