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Yes, Petar

I would agree with the most but with horn-loading all compromises suddenly do not get evaporated. The horn is not a panacea as the horn-loading is basically as well bandwidth-limited. In fact for objectivity sake I might say that the direct radiators might be even are more flexible to address the problems you mention above. The direct radiators are small and therefore they might be multiplied. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 inferior drivers, if they are properly used work better than one good one as they perform “balance loading” sharing the duty across multiple motor and cones. Sure, the increase the radiation surface cause other problems, like beaming and few other but to a degree it is possible to deal with it.

Also, with Accuton-like suspension I do not think that the problem with the softness of suspension but rather with differences of sound prorogation across the suspension and across the cone. In those stupid Accuton-like drivers the cone and the suspension do not know about each other and live by own separate lives, the result is predicable and very auditable.

Still, I feel that the biggest problem of high efficiency direct radiators is not in their intrinsic problems to implement them (those problems do exists) but rather in absence of industry needs in high efficiency direct radiators. You complain that the high-efficiency direct radiators compress but the industry compress sources to much higher degree that high-efficiency direct radiators would. Let be honest: your or my interest and agenda are not smothering the writes user requirements for the driver’s producers and designers. Ad if you look at the today driver’s producers and designers then you would see that for them much cheaper to make an amp a few hundred watts more then to make a driver a few dB more in sensitively. Considering that the majority partisans involved in the audio industry are Morons they o not know any different between high wattage of amplification and high loudspeakers efficiency…

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