Loudspeaker

This disclosure describes a method for the construction of a non-round, elongated loudspeaker. Technical field: Electrodynamic transducers for sound reproduction in consumer and automotive industry. Summary: A loudspeaker, which includes: a chassis; a moving assembly including an elongate diaphragm; a drive unit including a magnet unit and a voice coil, wherein the magnet unit forms part of the chassis and the voice coil forms part of the moving assembly; and a suspension arrangement which suspends the moving assembly from the chassis; wherein the diaphragm includes a diaphragm body and a diaphragm shell which are elongate; wherein the diaphragm body includes: a first valley portion and a second valley portion to which the suspension arrangement is attached, a neck portion, which is located between the first and second valley portions, to which the voice coil is attached, and a peripheral region which extends around the neck portion and the first and second valley portions; and wherein the diaphragm shell is attached to the peripheral region of the diaphragm body and extends across the neck portion and the first and second valley portions of the diaphragm body. ... The full enabling disclosure is provided in the attached document.