Abstract: An inductor with self-damping properties for use in multiple applications including for high power broadband frequency applications is provided by a coil having an input end and an output end and wound about a core of magnetically permeable material and an eddy current generator incorporated either at the time of manufacture or post manufacturing. The core can be air (e.g., a hollow coil of wire). Alternative core materials are iron, iron powder, steel laminations and other appropriate materials. The core may be incorporated into some form of frame whether I shaped, U shaped, E shaped or of an encapsulated shape arrangement. The inductor's Q value may be changed selectively by deliberately inducing eddy currents in preferred locations. The eddy currents are induced into the inductors and have the effect of introducing a back EMF which is designed and scaled appropriately to adjust the Q value at the desired frequency resulting is less phase distortion.

Abstract: A loudspeaker enclosure is arranged to support at least one electromagnetic loudspeaker driver generating both front and back acoustic waves. The front of the speaker is substantially planar and the driver is mounted in an opening in the front of the enclosure to radiate forwardly. The driver's back wave communicates through a passage adapted to function as an impedance-matched transmission line cavity having a length that is, preferably, three times the driver cone's diameter, and having one or more ports terminating in openings defined in a plane that is, preferably, substantially perpendicular to the enclosure's planar front. The port or ports have a cross sectional area of, preferably 0.707 to 1.414 times the operative area of the driver cone, thereby giving a highly efficient means of sound propagation.