These Solid-State Drivers Bring the Future of Portable Sound to Your Headphones
Parker Hall | Published on 11/28/2023
Photo above: xMEMS Montara micro speaker
These Solid-State Drivers Bring the Future of Portable Sound to Your Headphones
By Parker Hall of WIRED (Thanks to Steve for forwarding this content).
In the world of audio, drivers aren’t people behind steering wheels, they’re the tiny objects that physically produce sound. These tiny speakers come in many forms, from piston-like dynamic drivers you’d recognize as miniature speaker cones to more advanced forms of, essentially, magnetically moving a diaphragm in the air to create sound waves.