The basics of audio frequency range in audio design

Audio Components02 Jul 2024

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This blog will discuss audio frequencies and their various subsets as well as how they impact the design of audio enclosures to ensure a proper audio range for your design.

Despite a diverse range of applications, audio systems of all types often struggle to balance cost, size, and quality. Ensuring the system's ability to output the entire range of audio frequencies needed is crucial in this process. In this blog from Same Sky, discover the various audio frequencies, their subsets, and how they affect the design of audio enclosures. Learn more about when different audio ranges are needed or not in an end application to ensure proper speaker, microphone, or buzzer selection and maximize performance for your audio system.

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Speakers

Frame sizes from 10 mm up to 205 mm

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Microphones

ECM and MEMS microphones

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Buzzers

Indicators, transducers, and more

Conclusion

The audio frequency range is a significant factor in the design and component selection of speakers, buzzers, enclosures, and microphones. A fundamental understanding of this range, its implications for recording and reproduction, and its relation to the physical limitations of audio equipment is crucial for the design process. Same Sky offers a wide variety of audio components as well as audio design services, providing solutions for numerous applications with diverse frequency requirements.