Have you ever heard an 80,000$ speaker? Maybe they do sound as good. The materials in the driver and the difficulty of manufacture and tolerance is where the money goes.
Ten octaves range for a mechanical transducer that must put several acoustic watts into a medium-sized room is a colossal engineering nightmare. If it must as well disperse the highest frequencies across a horizontal 30° or so, all the worse.
Educate yourself. Do the research. Solve the problem for yourself (or not!). Guys with doctorates in this stuff have torn their hair out over this problem.
I'm glad I don't have to solve it; I can just spend a few hundred clams, and pay somebody else to.
Guys with doctorates in this stuff have torn their hair out over this problem.
Not a problem , and i dont even have a doc degree( hell almost didnt get my BS dregee). Take a Jordan 4" driver and re-enforce with a BLH or TL (like GMs design). Presto ,ya gotta 10 octave range. As i work with acoustical physics every day ( very high frequency range) i can state that its all dependant on what the final sound is desired and the room size, dimensions,dynamic range required, source,amp ect ect. ron
That's because you shunt the problem to Dr. Ted, who has torn his hair out over this predicament for years, and now makes the solution available to you for mere hundreds of (Shrub devalued) US$.
Deferring the problem does not remove it, it just removes it from your sight, if you are short-sighted. I reiterate; a driver that can output an acoustic watt into an average room with flat freqency response over ten (okay, nine) octaves, and okay dispersion on top, is an engineer's nightmare.
So, it's not your nightmare. Lucky you; blow a kiss at Dr. Ted.
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