Resistively damped loudspeaker system

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In accordance with the invention, provision is made for electrical damping of the coils, capacitors and loudspeaker drive units of loudspeaker systems and more particularly, for resistive damping of the back EMF of such coils, capacitors, drive units and combinations thereof, so as to reduce the ringing voltage in the loudspeaker crossover networks.
The invention reduces system ringing and provides a loudspeaker output which is significantly more accurate, i.
e.
, which more closely resembles the electrical input to the loudspeaker system, than is provided by such systems without this damping.
These benefits and results are measurable and can be demonstrated, and in particular, are quite audible in the output sound produced by the loudspeaker system--the sound being cleaner and more natural.
The resistive damping of the invention is provided by damping resistors which are connected in shunt with the capacitors, coils and drive units of the loudspeaker system and with combinations thereof, e.
g.
, with parallel combinations of capacitors and coils.
It is important to note that these damping resistors are not frequency shapers and, in fact, are not required to shape frequency in the use thereof here.
Other features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in, or apparent from, the detailed description of the preferred embodiments which follows.