+401 Speakers are an amazing invention when you think about it. They can literally make any sound that has ever been recorded. They don't need drumsticks to make a drumming noise or an actual person for you to hear a voice. They seem like magic, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

They don't make sound, they amplify a sound that already exists.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Explain. I always thought that they made vibrations that mimicked sounds.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The sound is recorded and put through the speaker, the shape of the speaker causes the sound to come out louder. You can't play a sound on a speaker that doesn't already exist.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Then what actually makes the noise before it is put through the speakers? I know that it is stored in a recording, but if speakers only make sound louder, then what played the recording into the speakers?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Sound waves. Sound is vibrations. The recording records the waves then puts the waves (or vibrations, as you said earlier) through the speaker. The point is, the vibrations already exist as a sound.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Sorry if I come off as stupid, but what is used to play those soundwaves into the speaker itself? There seems to be a missing link here.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The electronic cord that carries the waves to the speaker?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I don't think that we really understand each other. To me it still seems like speakers make the actual sound, even though it was recorded before.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Ok, the sound gets recorded then converted to data then the data gets converted back to sound in the speaker. The speaker makes the sound louder or quieter. It's the same sound, it's just been converted back and forth from sound to data to sound. The speaker doesn't make the sound. It converts the data back into sound. The sound already exists though.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Oh, okay. We were just thinking of a different kind of "make". The speakers didn't create the original sound, but they did replay the sound from data.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yeah.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

yo bro you high right now?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

that is exactly what I was going to ask haha.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Magnets- How do they work?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That's nothing, I have this box, that has loads of tiny lights, which can make any colour imaginable, usually loads of colours at once, to show me exactly what some people said and did in the past, because of invisible information it received from the sky.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Everything is magic if you are a dumb retard.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

when i first read this, i thought it said sneakers..

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think someone's got too much time on their hands.

by Anonymous 14 years ago