In Reply to: a 3" driver besting a two way design in a bigger cabinet? posted by 3db on February 27, 2021 at 21:37:45:
Allow me to play devil's advocate and indulge this 3" driver thing.It's a single driver.
You can't get less crossover than a single driver with no crossover. You're connecting the amplifier output state directly to the speaker terminals. People spend $25,000 on a pair of Neo-magnet 8" fullrange drivers. They then connect the amplifier output stage directly to the speaker terminals. Bliss ensues.
But every "fullrange" speakers has, in effect, two "crossovers" (or filters) associated with it - not electrical per se, but mechanical. The first is the low end rolloff and the the second is the high-end rolloff.
A full range speaker is actually a band-pass device. It can't do 20Hz well any more than it can do 20kHz well. And by well, well, I mean well.
So does a 3" speaker in a clock radio trump a 3-way with an exhaustively designer crossover and cabinet? If you're a single-driver officionado, you might actually say yes.
And that is all I have to say about that...
Cheers,
Presto
Edits: 02/27/21 02/27/21
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- Well hang on now. - Presto 22:46:29 02/27/21 (8)
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