In Reply to: Efficiency and Sensitivity are two valid measurements with different meanings. posted by Ralph on December 4, 2019 at 09:46:06:
What anyone did before Thiele/Small was pretty much whatever they wanted to, but along with the rest of the driver parameters they defined efficiency, which is parameter No. Most speaker modeling software will calculate it from the other parameters. As for efficiency vis a vis spec sheets, very few quote it. That's because it's not considered when modeling drivers, so there's no reason to need it. One source that does list efficiency is JBL on their THIELE SMALL LOW FREQUENCY DRIVER PARAMETERS AND DEFINITIONS pdf. Interestingly they don't call it by the spec No, they list it as EFF, but qualify what that means by stating Reference efficiency no (half-space acoustic load).
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- RE: Efficiency and Sensitivity are two valid measurements with different meanings. - Bill Fitzmaurice 12/4/1910:36:36 12/4/19 (12)
- RE: Efficiency and Sensitivity are two valid measurements with different meanings. - elblanco 12:08:50 12/4/19 (0)
- Actually efficiency is called out in individual drivers. - Ralph 11:19:49 12/4/19 (10)
- RE: Actually efficiency is called out in individual drivers. - Bill Fitzmaurice 13:56:16 12/4/19 (9)
- RE: Actually efficiency is called out in individual drivers. - Ralph 14:21:15 12/4/19 (8)
- RE: Actually efficiency is called out in individual drivers. - Bill Fitzmaurice 09:15:29 12/5/19 (7)
- the mistake of conflating Sensitiviy and Efficiency - Ralph 09:28:40 12/5/19 (6)
- RE: the mistake of conflating Sensitiviy and Efficiency - b.l.zeebub 11:16:36 12/6/19 (5)
- RE: the mistake of conflating Sensitiviy and Efficiency - Inmate51 14:48:52 12/6/19 (0)
- No - elblanco 14:31:37 12/6/19 (0)
- RE: the mistake of conflating Sensitiviy and Efficiency - Ralph 11:40:18 12/6/19 (2)
- RE: the mistake of conflating Sensitiviy and Efficiency - Bill Fitzmaurice 13:23:59 12/6/19 (1)
- OK- good, so now that we have that straight - Ralph 14:27:20 12/6/19 (0)