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Both, And... ([personal profile] erik) wrote in [personal profile] ericcoleman 2009-04-14 03:28 pm (UTC)

HONKER!

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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