Course Summary

Acoustics 101 : Speaker design basics and enclosure design, The main purpose of this course is to teach you how to properly design an enclosure for your speaker. There is no such thing as “This enclosure is the best choice for this particular speaker”. You have to take into consideration your application and your personal preferences. Do you want it to sound loud? Do you want it to sound deep and don’t care about loudness? You want it to be as smooth and linear as possible? These are all just a few examples of questions that needs answering before you get to work. The final result will always be a compromise between the acoustical qualities of an enclosure. Only you can decide which sound qualities are more important to you and you should be the one who “moves the sliders”. This course assumes that you have minimal knowledge about acoustics, and therefore starts slowly with some basic information about sound waves, how they are created and what are their characteristics. Then moves on to how the speaker is designed and some other relevant information about acoustics. This is obviously needed for a beginner, but it’s also good for an intermediate student, as I’m sure he will also find new information to make matters even more clear.