How a horn amplifies sound (hint: Impedance matching)

2015-01-11

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A horn-shaped speaker is louder than an equivalent speaker without the horn. This fact doesn't violate physics because the horn is acting as a matching device between the speaker and the air around it.

Photo Credit for phonograph: Norman Bruderhofer, Collection of John Lampert-Hopkins