What are the characteristics of a good and dynamic speaker?

Question

What makes a speaker interesting to you? Give examples.

What makes a bad speaker?

Answer 1

Speakers produce sound by pushing air waves around at particular frequencies. Normal human hearing is between 20 Hz and 20 KHz. speakers have a cylindrical magnet that is surrounded by a thin card board material that has a electric Magnet. The audio device sends a signal to each speaker pushing and pulling the voice coil by changing the voltage and polarity of the electro magnet.  There could get damaged also by pushing too much power in watts through the system.  At 1 KHz even much less power can destroy a speaker.

Bass is the lower frequency number and the higher is normally produced by tweeters.

Bad sound happens when speakers get worn out by use, sun, and when they are trying to play louder than the speaker can handle ( Watts.)  This is called distortion. Volts X Amps = watts.

If you use too small a speaker wire it restricts the flow of electrons in the wire. This works with power and ground wires as well. [ kind of like the difference between a garden hose and a fire hose]

I ran my own car audio business for 17 years.

Answer 2

First many things make a bad speaker. A person who does not make eye contact, or looks uncomfortable, or a person who simply reads from note cards, and has a monotonic voice. Or a person who speaks so low it is hard to hear. Things like that will lose an audience very fast.

A good speaker does the opposite. A good speaker looks like he/she enjoys speaking, speaks well with out a lot of ums and ers. A good speaker usually starts out with a little story or humor, and if they have note cards they briefly look at them and then scans the room so it looks like they are talking to each person. The best lesson on this is simply look at Obama or maybe Clinton. Notice how clearly they speak, how they don't stand there and say um and er. Obama is a master.