I have never really fully understood how a speaker vibrating air molecules which then in turn vibrate the membrane in your ear works. How can a speaker make multiple sounds at the exact same time if its based on movement of a physical object?
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Basically you’re adding together sounds. All the sounds added together make a pattern, and the speaker vibrates that pattern.
It’s a bit like… Imagine painting. Splash blue paint on a page, the light reflects and you see the page and blue marks. Splash yellow on the page, the light reflects and you see yellow. Splash those two exact same patters on the same page, you’ll see blue, yellow, and green where they mix together.
It’s a bit like that, except instead of the light reflecting off the page and paint and into your eye, the speaker vibrates the mix of sounds together into your ears.
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