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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Inside your ear, there is a membrane. This membrane is vibrated by the air moving against it. This single membrane (per ear) transfers the information that your brain can interpret to understand as any number of sounds happening at once, because what is actually hitting your ear is all the different frequencies of different sources of sound hitting your ear at once creating a single line over time. The ability of our brains to interpret all those frequencies stacked on top of each other is really impressive.

Speakers are just the exact same principle done in reverse.

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