[sdiy] Harmonic bandwidth

[Nicholas Gregorich]

Ian Fritz wrote:
> Speaker dynamics: If you put a perfect sawtooth into a speaker you would 
> be asking for its displacement to change instantaneously.  If you 
> rephased the harmonics then you would no longer have this step.  Of 
> course you never have exactly this situation, but the transient 
> mechanical response of the speaker to a step should be kept in mind.  
> For this reason I think the sawtooth does not make a very good test.

This seems like a valid point, but what bothers me is that there isn't 
much of a transient effect since there are only 32 harmonics. Adding 
sines from 100Hz to 3.2kHz shouldn't be causing a speaker to struggle, 
should it?

Nick.