Frederik Leonard Joha Sangster

Electro‐acoustic converter with compensated frequency response characteristic

A device for converting an electric signal into an acoustic signal, which comprises an electro-acoustic transducer unit (2) having a quality factor (Q) less than unity. The device further comprises an amplifier circuit (3) for driving the transducer unit. The amplifier circuit has a frequency-dependent gain characteristic (6) which increases towards the lower frequencies, starting from f2, in a frequency range between a first and a second frequency (f1 and f2), f1 being the resonant frequency of the transducer unit (2) and f2 being greater than f1. The efficiency can be increased if amplifier the circuit includes a special amplifier such as a switched amplifier, for example, a class-D amplifier, or an amplifier with a power supply that provides a DC voltage that depends on the drive level of the amplifier.