Voice Coil April 2025 Is Your Essential Connection to the Loudspeaker Industry

Voice Coil April 2025 is our Cable and Connector focused edition, and includes an updated vendors directory, plus a special Measurement Microphone Directory. And for this issue, Vance Dickason offers a triple dose of his Test Bench, with the new Beyma CD-314Nd/TI compression driver and horn, the Scan-Speak D2908/716000 TPCD metamodal 1" dome tweeter, and the Wavecor TW030TU03 graphene-coated soft dome tweeter.

This valuable tutorial on speaker lead-out flex wire by Mike Klasco revisits the fundamentals, from the trailing ends of the voice coil winding to speaker terminals. How to avoid flex wire whipping, fracturing of lead-out conductors, thermal issues, and corrosion of the solder joints. What types of flex wire and wire gauges are available, what are the advantages of textile fibers and wire testing, are some of the topics addressed. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, April 2024.