sugarkang
500+ Head-Fier
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There has to be a reason for why all headphones seem to max out at 50mm drivers.
Imagine a headphone that covers your whole head! That would be bad.
We've had a visit at Sennheiser last year and uttered the same question. We've been told that bigger conventional diaphragms start wobbling at certain frequencies, which has a severe decrease in SQ as result. That was the reason they built that ring driver, which has a higher stability of its own.
Interesting. Except your answer only leads to another question:
Why are we able to produce loudspeakers that may range
between 2" for bookshelf type and up to 20" drivers for concert/club settings?
Perhaps it has to do with range? Maybe the bigger the driver gets,
it loses ability to do higher frequencies, and thus we'd lose too much treble?
Otherwise, I don't get it.