Not to sound like a complete fool, but I thought it was just magnets wiggling because the wire told them to. How do you make the magnets wiggle better?
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Speakers are made of magnets, wire and a cone (and a box if you’re talking about free-standing speakers).
Cheap speakers use weak magnets, cheap wire and flimsy paper cones (and flimsy fiberboard boxes.) And there is barely any engineering behind the size/shape/weight of all those parts and how they “wiggle” the air, so a lot of sound frequencies get left out when the speaker is trying to generate them.
Nice, expensive speakers use strong magnets, high-quality wire, sturdy-but-lightweight synthetic cones, and boxes made of dense, sturdy wood or plastic of a precise size and shape. On top of that, acoustic engineers spend a lot of time making sure all those parts work well together and produce a very wide range of sound frequencies in a very consistent manner. That wide range of sound frequencies is what gives a “rich” or “high-quality” sound.
With good speakers you’re not just paying for the materials, you’re also paying for all the research and engineering that went into designing that speaker to make it sound good.
(like the difference between an 2.0L economy car engine and a 2.0L sports car engine. Same size, but the sports car engine is a lot stronger and faster.)
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