May 9, 2019
The THD peak at ~10 kHz stems mainly from a mode of the MEMS at 21 kHz. When the MEMS is excited with 21kHz it resonates strongly and produces movement and subsequently a higher SPL. Due to small inherent non-linearities in the movement of the MEMS, 10.5 kHz will produce a small frequency component at…
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April 30, 2019
USound specifies and measures Ganymede MEMS speakers, Achelous and Adap, in both acoustic domains: in the Baffle and in the Coupler (artificial ear). For both setups, proprietary measurement adapters are used to fit the standardised setup. In Baffle In the case of the baffle, the measurement adapter places the MEMS speaker with appropriate sealing inside…
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The baffle measurement is standardised in the IEC 60268-5 [1], even though in everyday applications, no baffle is present. So why does the industry rely on this particular setup? There is one main reason: it is universal. The baffle is basically just a massive wall which separates back and front side of the speaker. The…
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June 4, 2018
First, we should clarify how power consumption is typically measured with electro-dynamic speakers or BAs. Since the impedance of these speakers is roughly constant over frequency (typically 4, 8 or 32Ω), this impedance value is taken as “nominal”. With this, a very simple transformation from a result obtained with a constant voltage into a result with…
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