Simon Sebag Montefiore

I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, 'This sure beats respectable life in England.

British Historian

Adam Hamilton

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.

American Clergyman

Steve Finley

I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.

American Athlete

Florian Schneider

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.

German Musician

George Orwell

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

British Author

David Tudor

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

American Musician

Stuart Symington

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

American Businessman

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

German Composer

Raj Thackeray

Keep your religion in your house. Shut off the loudspeakers Masjids. Our Aarti does not trouble, why should Namaaz harass others?

Indian Politician

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

Usually denotes devices in public areas or electronic products for personal use. Not for individual headphones.

Usage Context

Can vary in size dramatically, from small in smartphones to large for concerts.

Size Variations

Implies sound is made louder for multiple or distant listeners, not just its source volume.

Implies Amplification

Refers to speakers for low-pitched sounds; not for treble or high-pitched sounds.

Sound Range

Commonly used in home theaters to enhance the sound experience of movies.

Home Cinema

Such loudspeakers often cause vibrations you can feel, contributing to the audio effect.

Physical Vibration

 avoid some of my instincts and maybe misperceptions I have from so many companies I've seen over the years. I wanted to know this because I've been starting businesses since I was 12 years old when I sold candy at the bus stop in junior high school, to high school, when I made solar energy devices, to college, when I made loudspeakers.

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 We're hoping to break a world record with this. I would love to break a world record today, -I'm not gonna lie. -Okay. And where's the other half? Is this working in a different way? So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence,

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 Now, think about where the world would be today if we had the light bulb, but you couldn't focus light; if when you turned one on it just went wherever it wanted to. That's the way loudspeakers pretty much are. You turn on the loudspeaker,

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 announcement and a public announcement was issued over the loudspeaker suddenly everyone and the entire train had gotten out but me I didn't understand what happened I waited a little bit then just to be safe I got out too but believe me

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 Despite the fact that these are space-time waves and not sound waves, we like to put them into loudspeakers and listen to them. We call this "the music of the universe." I'd like you to listen to the first two notes of that music.

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 We needed to talk with people, not at people. We needed to work with the community influencers so people believed our message. We needed to be talking under the mango tree, not through loudspeakers. And we needed more beds.

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 they may look like extras from a sci-fi b-movie but these people really are wearing their work clothes they are stalling busters hired to clear the streets of this urban menace their weapon of choice is a loudspeaker

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 several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision. What do you picture that you're in right now? How do you picture this theater? Lots of loudspeakers, quite frankly.

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 is helpful— up to a point. If he hears it too many times, the imitation degrades— and the source matters. If the song is played through a loudspeaker, he can’t pick it up as easily.

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 amplification the mail tree cricket like its beetle counterpart wants to advertise for a mate and the leaf becomes a loudspeaker his vibrating wings are made louder by the whole the