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In Reply to: upgrades exist outside of one aspect of a xover topology. posted by Edp on November 19, 2007 at 12:32:47:
You make an excellent point in discussing crossover issues. There is a continuum between speakers that have no crossover to those with complex ones. And every step along that range has a topology that has strengths and weaknesses. The same is true with every other aspect of speaker design.
When people claim that no compromise has been made with a particular speaker design, they are, simply put, wrong. What they are really saying is that the particular group of weaknesses inherent in their preferred speaker are unimportant to them.
Maybe the weakness is size, or efficiency, or frequency extremes, or distortion, or dispersion, or perhaps just money. This list could go on much further, but the fact there is a constant debate over which of the hundreds upon hundreds of different speakers are "best" is solid testament to the fact that all of them have compromises.
While I haven't heard all of them, I've been unimpressed by some of the phase conscious designs I've heard. That may be a wonderful parameter but if the tone balance is off to my ear, then the speaker has lost the more important of those two battles for me. Others obviously come to a different conclusion.
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