what questions should be in loudspeaker FAQ thread

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What's the difference between Home Audio, Car Audio, and Pro Audio speakers?
How do speakers wear out?
Why do speakers come in so many different sizes.
Why do they have different parameters?
Why do they have different impedances?
Why is there so much conflicting information on Line Arrays.
What's with this "Chaos in the near field" on line arrays?
What does magnet weight have to do with? What about neodymium?
What does stuffing do?
What's the best stuffing per situation?
Why do so many people in this forum spend so much time trying to squeeze out the highest efficiency, flatest response, and best value? :)
 
What are tha basic stages (in order) to build a loudspeaker.
What is the reason for using an enclosure.
What are standing waves/baffle edge diffraction/baffle step
What are sound radiation patterns/on axis/off axis/lobing/room reflections
What is room gain/transfer function
What is time aligment/phase coherency
Why use multiple and different sized drivers
What is beaming/non-directional sound
What is distortion/, Types of distortion. What is clipping.
What is frequency
What is db, f3. significance of commonly used 3db and 10db.
What is a crossover. Filter types. Common orders
What is efficiency/power handling

Most FAQ questions are answered in Loudspeaker Cookbook by V Dickason.
 
This is a good start.

I'm either going to put the questions into a list in a new thread and people can submit answers to whatever questions they want, or Ill put the list in the wiki and request that the mods sticky a link to it. The wiki would make sense because it will be easier to expand. As long as the link is very obvious I dont think it will be a problem if the list is posted outside the actual forum. Whatever the case it needs to be clear and accessible or people will just ignore it.
 
My little input..

1/What is compressed horn?
2/Does horn speaker needs special driver units ?
3/Can a normal driver unit fit with a horn like baffle thus transform it as a horn speaker?
4/What is comb filter effect?
5/How to time align different drivers?
6/What is the best way to prepare speaker binding connection and maintain air tight for a closed box?
7/Can you show diagram configurations of dipole, bipole, monopole, and whatever pole exists?

The Butcher:D
 
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