In Reply to: Re: Interesting discussion on Audiogon , Wayne, your thought? posted by Adam on July 17, 2002 at 07:31:02:
--I'd never recommend a woofer like this for a 2-way system even if
--it didn't have the bandwidth. The intermodulation distortion of a
--woofer throwing 15mm xmax delivering 30 Hz notes while also trying
--to throw out 1,000 Hz notes would be just unbearable.Food for thought - can we also say that a midrange/midbass driver
trying to deliver 100hz notes while also trying to throw out
2khz notes would be just unbearable? *OR* is the distortion
levels acceptable by human standards?I've been wondering about this for a long while since most
people like to use midrange drivers at low crossover frequencies
especially car audio folks. They place midrange units in the doors
and cross them over at 70-80 hz to match their subwoofer. How much
energy can that midrange output in that low frequencies range
while still trying to sound good.Perhaps at low listening levels it works, but I'm more or less
into listening to music at high output in which case, it doesn't
seem like a good idea to do this.Home audio - 2 way systems - It seems these systems are highly
compromised at high spl for the said reason, but people insist
on building them? The only reason I can think of is.. they don't
crank the tunes?
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