What Are Three-Way Speakers?

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Pat Malaga owner of Sound Advice in in El Sobrante, California. I'm here to talk about, what are three way speakers? A three way speaker is simply a speaker with three types of speakers in it. They could be in it, on it or around it and still be considered a three way speaker. This is a Triaxial Speaker, it has the woofer, the large cone speaker in the back, that produces the Bass. Anything below two hundred and fifty cycles, that means thumping sounds, anything below our voice, is typically a Bass note. Now the second driver is the mid range driver. This is a smaller center, a smaller driver centering around one thousand cycles. In layman's terms, that's about the tone of your voice, of the typical voice. The third part of a three way speaker, is the Tweeter. The Tweeter typically carries frequencies from 2500 cycles on it, hence the word Tweet- Er. Tweet coming from the sound of a bird. That is basically analogies to the tone that comes from this small speaker. So again, to reiterate, the big speaker is the Bass cone, the middle speaker, middle size speaker is the mid range. Hence mid, range and the Tweeter is the typically the smallest of the three speakers, delivering strictly high frequency sounds. And that's what three way speakers are. I'm Pat from Sound Advice."