the.com/tweeter
The tiny cone screaming the highs while the woofer handles the heavy lifting downstairs.
means A small loudspeaker driver designed to reproduce high-frequency sounds, the treble end of the audio spectrum.
from From the verb "tweet," an imitation of the thin, high chirp of a small bird — itself an echoic word, born of mouths trying to sound like beaks. When audio engineers needed a name for the speaker that handled high frequencies, they reached for the bird that sang highest; its bass-handling sibling got named for the deep howl of a dog, the "woofer." So a hi-fi speaker cabinet is, etymologically, a small zoo: birds up top, dogs below.
- frequency range
- Handles roughly 2,000 to 20,000 hertz
- size matters
- Smaller domes reproduce faster, higher sounds
- silk vs metal
- Material choice shapes warmth or brightness
- crossover guard
- Filters block bass that would destroy it
- name origin
- Named for the high chirp of birds
jack dorsey — founder and former ceo of twitter, created the platform in 2006
elon musk — acquired twitter in october 2022 for $44 billion and rebranded it to x