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In the Forum: Audio For Dummies ™
In the Thread: About Single Driver Speakers and their idiots owners.
Post Subject: Isn’t it answer contains in your question?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/11/2010
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 zanon wrote:
Romy:
IF a person does have personal objectives to shape sound, then what additional options do they get with a 3-way off the shelf B&W that they do not have with full range driver?
Zanon, I think this is a whole point – a multidriver system does have options.  Can’t say about B&W – I did not use them but many manufactures do offer options for attenuation of individual drivers. If not then I always use options for attenuation tweeters by rolling toilet paper over them. Think about it – most of today speakers go down to 30Hz-40Hz but at that frequency the response is 50% of room constitution. The manufactures have no control over it, this way the whole stupid industry of bass traps is invented.

In case of multiple drivers the system becomes much more flexible and accommodatable to the specific condition of the given room. I have absolutely no idea what people do if they have a single driver that outputs from 12kHz to 50Hz. If it does relatively flat response (none of them do) then let it to be it but if not then what one can do? To soak the cone with mineral liquids and to paint Masonic symbols on the diaphragms?

You ask what additional options they get with a 3-way compare to a single driver. Isn’t it answer contains in your question?

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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