Perplexed on how single driver speakers can cover such a large Hz range


I googled till I was blue in the face. I've always wondered how in the world the cone of a single driver speaker, with no crossovers, at any given ten thousands of a second, be vibrating a hefy 60Hz and also a sizzling 10 kHz. To me it's like quantum mechanics. I don't understand. I just have to accept.

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As dynamiclinearity mentioned, at any given, whatever any driver is doing at any given time is a complex combination of many different frequencies albeit in a more limited way in a classic woofer, midrange or tweeter than a single driver design. It’s always amazing to me that this can occur & sound realistic. 
 

Even more amazing to me is that a single stylus in a phono cartridge can somehow do a similar but inverse thing &  react to the full range squiggles in a spinning vinyl disc & do so accurately!  Also similarly but not always true, the better cartridges can’t “ play loudly” either & general their outputs  are very low & require substantial amplification to be “heard”.  Thomas Edison was one smart dude!!