When people first started making multi-driver speaker enclosures, they needed something to call the different speakers. In the early days, they were generally splitting the spectrum into three bands, and they called the high-end one the "tweeter", the low-end one the "woofer", and the one in the middle the "honker."
Three-driver speakers fell out of fashion for a while, leaving us with just woofer and tweeter. Then they came back into vogue, but the "honker" name was not picked back up. Now we have "tweeter," "midrange," and "woofer."
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Date: 2009-04-14 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-14 03:21 pm (UTC)HONKER!
Date: 2009-04-14 03:28 pm (UTC)Three-driver speakers fell out of fashion for a while, leaving us with just woofer and tweeter. Then they came back into vogue, but the "honker" name was not picked back up. Now we have "tweeter," "midrange," and "woofer."
Tweeter or Woofer
Date: 2009-04-14 06:17 pm (UTC)Woofer.
Date: 2009-04-14 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-14 11:15 pm (UTC)Especially "Whippings and Apologies." Great stuff.
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Date: 2009-04-14 11:42 pm (UTC)