An Quick Guide Of The Distortion Specification Of Cordless Speakers In this piece of writing, I will explain the spec "total

harmonic distortion", often also known as "THD" which is commonly used in order to show the performance of wireless speakers. Looking for the ideal model from the enormous amount of models, you may have a hard time comprehending several of the technical language and specs that you will find in the specifications of modern wireless surround sound speakers. Some of those are most likely fairly simple to comprehend like "output power" or "frequency response". Though, a specification that is not as easily understood is the specification regarding how much distortion the loudspeaker has. In brief, "harmonic distortion" describes how much the audio signal is being degraded because of the loudspeaker or in other words how much the signal differs from the original signal. There are two common ways in order to express harmonic distortion, either in percent (%) or in decibel (dB). If a speaker specifies a distortion of 10% to provide an example then one tenth of the energy radiated by the speaker is distortion. A distortion of 10% may also be shown as -20 dB. 1% distortion equals -40dB. On the other hand, be cautious as there are actually several elements which cause harmonic distortion. Wireless speakers and any kind of active loudspeaker or active subwoofer all have built-in power amps in order to drive the speaker element. Usually the bigger the amp is driven the bigger the level of amplifier distortion. For this reason, a number of vendors will state amp distortion based on amp output power. Having amp distortion specifications for a few output power levels provides a better indication of the amplifier distortion performance.Besides, please note that distortion typically is measured for a certain test tone frequency. Usually a 1 kHz sine wave tone is utilized during the measurement. However, amplifier distortion is going to commonly increase with increasing frequency, in particular in digital class-D products. Distortion is also created by the speaker driver itself. Most speakers use a driver that carries a voicecoil. This coil is located in a magnetic field. The voicecoil is going to track the magnetic field which is controlled by the audio signal to move the diaphragm. Nonetheless, this movement is not perfectly linear. As such the result is distortion brought about by the speaker element. Many manufacturers are going to exhibit harmonic distortion depending on the power level as typically the higher the loudspeaker is driven the bigger the amount of distortion. As such both the amplifier and the speaker element itself contribute to distortion. Furthermore, there are different factors that also contribute to distortion. The whole amount of distortion is the total of all of these factors. Depending on the material used to manufacture the loudspeaker enclosure, there are going to be vibrations or box resonances. These generally depend on the sound pressure level, the box shape, the housing fabric in addition to audio frequency. For that reason extra sound distortion is going to be brought on by the enclosure itself. Total distortion is best determined via measurement. A signal generator is used that provides a highly linear sine tone to the loudspeaker. The audio is received by a measurement microphone. The microphone signal is subsequently analyzed by an audio analyzer. The audio analyzer will calculate the level of higher harmonics or distortion. Though, pure sine signals hardly give an accurate indication of the distortion of the cordless loudspeaker with real-world signals. A better distortion analysis is the so-called intermodulation distortion analysis in which a test tone that includes a number of sine waves is used. Next the level of harmonics at other frequencies is measured. In addition, please note that most wireless loudspeakers will experience audio distortion during the audio transmission itself. This is for the most part the case for transmitters that use analog or FM type transmission. Superior types will make use of digital transmission and transmit at 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz to minimize audio distortion.