Loudspeakers performance variance due to components and assembly process - Field assessment

This paper is the continuation of the study presented at the past convention "AES Berlin 2017-142nd International Convention" regarding the main causes of scrap during the production of a typical midrange loudspeaker. Various samples with reference and modified components parameters have been built and characterized in terms of frequency response, total harmonic distortion and electrical-mechanical parameters. In addition, a second set of samples has been built using reference components but varying the assembly process parameters and these samples also have been characterized as the previous ones. After measurements performed both in an anechoic chamber and in a real production line, a new set of measurements has been done inside a production car, in order to check if the results obtained in the preceding study would have been confirmed by field measurements. In more detail, authors aim was to verify that critical components individuated in the former paper would also have a relevant role after samples installation in a vehicle.