How do speakers create so many layers of sound, from one or two cones vibrating. Pt 2, how do the cables carry soooo much information to a passive speaker from the amp.

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Title explains it? Passive speakers blow me away – that they are getting all of that info from two small cables from the amp. It seems incredible.

And how is there such separation and depth in the layers of music when it’s coming from more or less the same cones.

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>Title explains it? Passive speakers blow me away – that they are getting all of that info from two small cables from the amp. It seems incredible.

>And how is there such separation and depth in the layers of music when it’s coming from more or less the same cones.

There is no separation and there is no depth. A speaker always just plays one sound. It can change that sound quickly, vary the frequency and the amplitude but it still only plays one sound. That’s the signal it receives, that’s the sound it plays.
Everything else happens in your head. All your brain’s pattern recognition ability (that’s a violin! that’s my mother’s voice!) stems from the order and context in which that sound is played and varied. *That* is the truly incredible part, not the speaker!