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Loudspeakers for electronic instruments

Drivers Musical instrument loudspeakers are quite different

from hi-fi models. The first are used for the production of

sound, the second for reproduction. In the latter case, all forms

of distortion must be kept to a minimum and the response to all

frequencies must be equal. The loudspeaker is neutral,

contributing nothing and omitting nothing.

With electronic instruments there is no original sound to

reproduce, the loudspeaker is part of the instrument. As the

sounding box of an acoustic guitar adds overtones and

resonances giving it character and timbre, so does the

loudspeaker with the electroni ...