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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Any speakers can only play 1 wave at a time. And the air can actually only carry 1 wave at a time.

What happens is that all the sounds from different sources merge together and become a wave that is a combination of all the waves playing together.

A speaker generates that wave.

Your ears hear that wave and then your brain sorts it out so you hear all the different individual sounds.

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