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Article #7809Re: non-magnetic speakers
From: James W. Swonger
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 17:58
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 17:58
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You can get piezo tweeters, which are about as non-magnetic as you can get - aside from the fields generated by the drive current. For the woofers you are in a bit of a jam - most get their punch from a big cone and a big magnet. However, since the bass component of sound is pretty non-directional (the wavelength being long) you might get satisfactory results by mounting the piezo tweeters in your planned location and the woofer(s) in a remote spot. I have a 6" polysomethingorother woofer I got at the Shack a few years ago which looks like it would do OK if the backside were protected (w.r.t. the salt spray problem). Maybe you can find a location that will not interfere with the compass. Another possibility: to try and contain the flux from the speaker magnet somehow. You might be able to cob up a flux return path as part of the enclosure that would suck up the stray flux and feed it back to the poles.
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