Speaker Dust Cap Affect Sound

I sent him over some questions about the dust cap you see in the center of a typical guitar amp speaker.

Speaker dust cap affect sound.

A vacuum cleaner can often work but limit the suction by opening the hose somewhere in it s length. Those are my personally tested techniques for taking the dent out of. A dented dustcap should not impact the sound at all. The dustcaps on most speakers are non functional.

A perfect speaker driver also has no dust cap but a phase plug preferably made of wood that fills the voice coil cavity. After several years i ve finally been able to hook up a new set of klipsch speakers. I haven t yet attached the front dust covers i m sure there s a more accurate term and was wondering whether they actually affect the sound any good or bad or simply keep the external components clean. I suppose you could argue that the sound waves are reflected in ways that it wasn t designed to do or something but i have a set with the caps pushed in and i never noticed a difference.

Anthony dishes all the dirt in this interview i entitled the deal on dust caps. It keeps the dust off the middle. Sonically though a little pinhole in your dust cap isn t going to affect your sound quality. No it isn t going to effect the sound a dust cap is just that.

If a dust prevention is needed a sound permeable material should to be chosen in combination with a short phase plug. So there you go. They are in the dust cap voice coil cover which is typically merely glued to the speaker done. Usually a dented dustcap can be repaired by using a little suction on it.

The holes are not in the speaker cone.