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Duuh... It depends







I have been messing with loudspeaker design since circa 1966. I started making amateur recordings in 1968, and the first professional recording I worked on, in 1982, is still in print, and the original LPs fetch anywhere from $100 to $400 on eBay.

I count among my friends Bob Ludwig, Mark Wilder, Tony Faulkner, and Alan Silverman, and the answer still is, "It Depends."

In the past two years I have designed and built about 14 loudspeaker prototypes for paying customers.

I will now confer upon you the single most important piece of wisdom I have learned about loudspeaker design:

"To get 'this,' you have to give up 'that'."

What are the most important things for you?

If the sound totally does not work for you unless you really FEEL the bass down into the piano's lowest octave (55Hz down to 27.5Hz), then you probably need a 3-way.

BUT if the most important thing for you is that from Middle C (262Hz) up, the transition from woofer-mid to tweeter is SEAMLESS, only a 2-way will do.

INSIDER SCOOP:

Tony Faulkner has made more award-winning classical recordings than anyone, and his preferred recording monitoring speakers are modern QUAD electrostatics.

BUT, if the job is situated where he cannot bring in and set up QUADs, his fallback choice is Wilson Audio Duette 2-ways, because Tony just can't listen past the hash that he believes most three-way crossovers make of the all-important middle octaves.

FWIW & YMMV and Other Peoples' MMV.

amb,

jm

PS: The image is of one of my designs.

If you have to ask "How Much?", by definition you cannot afford them.

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