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In the Thread: Other Ways of getting Special Tone from a loudspeaker.

Post Subject: Tone vs. Range vs. DynamicsPosted by Paul S on: 11/27/2009

The idea of two (or more) differing drivers covering the same range is intellectually very attractive with respect to tone, and maybe efficiency, as well. OTOH, the problem remains that very few drivers sound seriously good across the board over more than a couple of octaves. In fact, offhand, I can't think of any that do. Unfortunately, the "logical" conclusion from this muddled matrix is that it takes a LOT of drivers to handle tone and dynamics properly over anything approaching FR.

BTW, has anyone figured out how to consistently get tone below about 200Hz?

And does anyone want to address the matter of crossovers for all these drivers?

Paul S

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