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In Reply to: Single drivers are for people that never had a properly designed multiway posted by airtime on August 26, 2014 at 06:31:31:
The "point" (or rather, *points*) or purpose of single-driver is to create an elegant, electrically efficient, crossover-less loudspeaker.Single-driver designs are not perfect, but no loudspeaker is. Every design creates certain compromises while avoiding certain others. The best single-driver designs can be driven on far fewer watts than other types of loudspeakers while eliminating the sonic artifacts of crossovers in the frequency ranges that your ears are most sensitive to. If you prefer the sound of low-powered amplifiers and/or if your ears are particularly sensitive to midband discontinuites, then the single-driver experience might be for you. It all depends though, because there are as many (more?) bad or mediocre single-driver designs as there are really good ones.
That said, I'm not absolutely sure that my single-drivers would be the ones I'd hold on to if my ship was sinking in the frigid waters of the Northern Sea. It would be a tough decision. My Lauras are currently the biggest and most bouyant speakers that I own. My conventional multi-ways sound pretty great but they also seem like power hungry boat anchors at times. My glorious sounding headphones and their long tethers have a tendency to gather seaweed. What to do, what to do?
I really like all types of speakers because I think that they all have something uniquely good to offer. I'd gladly own several pairs.
Edits: 08/26/14 08/26/14
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- RE: "Kinda loses the point." - genungo 07:31:23 08/26/14 (3)
- Isn't a single driver with supertweeter and subs now really a... - Presto 15:00:59 08/26/14 (2)
- RE: really a 3-way...? - genungo 15:14:33 08/26/14 (1)
- RE: really a 3-way...? - Presto 19:30:04 08/28/14 (0)
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