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How Headphones and Earbuds Work

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 – running time 04:47
Dr. Kiki explains the ins and outs of headphones and earbuds.

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" The opening of music but I get an obvious. The obvious though it how might listening pleasure is made possible. Had -- these handy little tiny but headphones are part of the equation have you ever noticed how everyone is wearing -- had both these ain't. What ever happened to make. Small so. I don't know. Headphone technology is not all that different from speaker technology. Speakers electrical signals are transmitted down on the speaker wired to a metal coil the metal -- is usually around a permanent magnet with the Quayle -- charged and the flow of electricity to become and tell -- and -- it repels or at tracks that permanent magnet. The toilet attached to it. Could take diet -- and flexible material that Colin airport I rate apple airport based on the electrical signal. That are being -- to the quite well the bigger the signal the greater the vibration. The migration of the -- cushion on the air molecules next to the speaker and create sound waves that can be picked up by the year. -- I pray he recognized as the outer sounds. If you saw other vapor episode pops hiring you might remember how I demonstrated effect does outweigh its on there with -- you haven't seen it you (%expletive) that go back and watch the first episode. At army to connect sound in large spaces how does the technology translate -- months. Speakers usually put into boxes. The -- resonant and that would buy and modified out that created by the cult. The sound waves don't travel outward for the speaker and speaker case in all directions bouncing not assert that this is on the meeting here. You in the room the room it's. Well becomes a secondary resonant chambers for the spam rate which are modified in -- I don't think that they come into contact with and not real. Native fairly well amplified signal to be able to reach your air we you're here with fidelity through all of that. It had found. You do away with the room and have a simple case. That fits around the year they repeat here additionally the head phones are much much closer to the ear then speaker usually are here Rayburn who like to stand right in front of them boom boom boom. That because that did -- people through which the found have to travel at priest. -- component parts that I had found can be smaller and those of the speaker. Any -- like these little tear but. The need for speaker case is being moved completely because the designed to -- on the resonant properties that the ear canal it felt. Eight in delivering down to the eardrum. But doesn't it an ear headphones -- Jack like -- speaker. Let's find out what of the basic principle that science is observation and sometimes you have to you. Take being the parent to be able to observe them this visit daily average sat in the year but had and decided that her -- in the name is science. That will make an educated -- here. And that gets at the this right here with a -- than it is where the sound comes out. I'll go even further to say that orient into the holes he has to do with direction Alex is now delivery. And may be with -- ear wax out of they had found. I pop the cover of the year but hot. That okay that we might find. There is a very thin plastic membrane that'd probably be equivalent of the current attached to a very tiny quail. And next here a very tiny. But powerful magnet. That -- and all that the here that the speaker wires are directly attached to the courage to the toilet out. There's a pretty and the ear headphones on the market these days with -- isolating quality but what is that little. -- leading here aren't physically blocking noise from getting to your ear canal by plugging the ear canal and keeping up I -- out just like your. Remember now it's physical and can cause real cumulative damage to their hairstyle in the -- that a lack need to hear. Every time you turn up the volume because of -- I think I -- can't yelling next to you you are increasingly damage that's inflicted on your years. -- outside -- it doesn't get your ears in the first place. You will have to turn it up quite -- match. That said going to get act doing it now. Stands at -- he."

" The opening of music but I get an obvious. The obvious though it how might listening pleasure is made possible. Had -- these handy little tiny but headphones are part of the equation have you ever noticed how everyone is wearing -- had both these ain't. What ever happened to make. Small so. I don't know. Headphone technology is not all that different from speaker technology. Speakers electrical signals are transmitted down on the speaker wired to a metal coil the metal -- is usually around a permanent magnet with the Quayle -- charged and the flow of electricity to become and tell -- and -- it repels or at tracks that permanent magnet. The toilet attached to it. Could take diet -- and flexible material that Colin airport I rate apple airport based on the electrical signal. That are being -- to the quite well the bigger the signal the greater the vibration. The migration of the -- cushion on the air molecules next to the speaker and create sound waves that can be picked up by the year. -- I pray he recognized as the outer sounds. If you saw other vapor episode pops hiring you might remember how I demonstrated effect does outweigh its on there with -- you haven't seen it you (%expletive) that go back and watch the first episode. At army to connect sound in large spaces how does the technology translate -- months. Speakers usually put into boxes. The -- resonant and that would buy and modified out that created by the cult. The sound waves don't travel outward for the speaker and speaker case in all directions bouncing not assert that this is on the meeting here. You in the room the room it's. Well becomes a secondary resonant chambers for the spam rate which are modified in -- I don't think that they come into contact with and not real. Native fairly well amplified signal to be able to reach your air we you're here with fidelity through all of that. It had found. You do away with the room and have a simple case. That fits around the year they repeat here additionally the head phones are much much closer to the ear then speaker usually are here Rayburn who like to stand right in front of them boom boom boom. That because that did -- people through which the found have to travel at priest. -- component parts that I had found can be smaller and those of the speaker. Any -- like these little tear but. The need for speaker case is being moved completely because the designed to -- on the resonant properties that the ear canal it felt. Eight in delivering down to the eardrum. But doesn't it an ear headphones -- Jack like -- speaker. Let's find out what of the basic principle that science is observation and sometimes you have to you. Take being the parent to be able to observe them this visit daily average sat in the year but had and decided that her -- in the name is science. That will make an educated -- here. And that gets at the this right here with a -- than it is where the sound comes out. I'll go even further to say that orient into the holes he has to do with direction Alex is now delivery. And may be with -- ear wax out of they had found. I pop the cover of the year but hot. That okay that we might find. There is a very thin plastic membrane that'd probably be equivalent of the current attached to a very tiny quail. And next here a very tiny. But powerful magnet. That -- and all that the here that the speaker wires are directly attached to the courage to the toilet out. There's a pretty and the ear headphones on the market these days with -- isolating quality but what is that little. -- leading here aren't physically blocking noise from getting to your ear canal by plugging the ear canal and keeping up I -- out just like your. Remember now it's physical and can cause real cumulative damage to their hairstyle in the -- that a lack need to hear. Every time you turn up the volume because of -- I think I -- can't yelling next to you you are increasingly damage that's inflicted on your years. -- outside -- it doesn't get your ears in the first place. You will have to turn it up quite -- match. That said going to get act doing it now. Stands at -- he."