How do speakers recreate complex sounds without muddling the sounds together?

Question

For example how does a speaker not muddled together the sound of a guitar, a singer and drum beats during a song?

In: Technology

Answer 1

The sounds are already muddled together. Sound waves add up: The guitar, the singer, and the drum beats will all produce their own waves which then combine in to a single complicated sound wave. Our brains are just really good at separating the complicated sound wave back in to the guitar, singer, and drums.

If you replicate that complicated sound wave with a speaker our brains will do the hard work of interpreting it as many sounds instead of just the one.