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Audio and Speaker Electronics | Highlights for High School

Join me for a hands-on ride through the fundamentals of electronics and acoustics and the process of loudspeaker design and construction. We will learn about the engineering and art involved throughout music/movie recording and playback, the design and application of everything from microphones to DACs, amplifiers, and speakers. With the aid of computer assisted audio measuring equipment at the MIT Edgerton Center, we will analyze the frequency response and distortion of speaker drivers, and understand their effect on what we hear. Then we design our own speakers—driver selection, crossover networks, and enclosure design—and build them in class! Introductory Video View an introduction from the instructor outlining the aims of the course.More introductory videos are available in Meet the Instructor Videos.

Keywords:: Educational Studies program, Simple circuits, Music reproduction, Electronics, Computer-aided design, Free, High school, Open, MIT student developed materials, Fundamentals, Acoustics, Online, Speaker, Audio, High school studies program

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: August 1, 2022
Author:: Unknown (Know the author?)
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: High School
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States