In Reply to: RE: Should we send a "representative" to Magnepan? posted by josh358 on October 15, 2011 at 10:34:49:
It would be great to have that work, but I don't think you can overcome the IMD that a shared diaphragm would produce. However, you can obtain a timing benefit since the origin or wavelaunch are identical in both ranges. That always seems to be a problem in manufacturing that a concentric line source sharing the diaphragm will solve. So I don't really know how far the tradeoff of timing and IMD would put you ahead.
Actually, I am sure that magnepan tried this out at some point. I am guessing that it was put away in favor of keeping the tuning buttons in their symmetrical positions and putting the HF traces at the edge.
This is like the ribbon Tympani, where putting the mid/tweeter panels in the middle ends up losing baffle gain in the midbass panel.
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