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phiwong t1_j5fcc1v wrote

A speaker doesn't "know" frequencies. It is a device designed to create a pressure wave in the air that we interpret as sound. So it moves according to the signal given.

The signal itself is a single wave that consists of a combination of waves of different frequencies.

That's it.

For a non ELI5 explanation, this would require some knowledge of waves and possibly Fourier transforms etc.

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