![]() In many ways they can sound like a much bigger speaker but then you hit their Achilles heel - they fall apart quite quickly at "moderately loud" levels. ![]() Alpairs are a good example of "neutral but limited." In a back loaded horn you can get a tiny speaker that can do a decent job at bass in a small room without the quirks you often get with fullrangers. Those that are neutral but limited and those with quirks and a personality. In general they tend to come in two varieties. ![]() #5 FULL RANGE DRIVER DRIVERS#I find that fullrange drivers vary enormously. #5 FULL RANGE DRIVER DRIVER#So now that I've bought into the concept the question is how much better can I do? This driver uses a dust cap, are whizzers the way to go? Does going to a larger single driver have certain compromises and benefits? Would a single driver in a large cabinet start having room interaction issues like I was experiencing? Would love to hear all opinions from anyone who has experiences with single drivers. Such a beautiful mid range and still providing a high level of detail. Completely amazed by what is available for relatively little money. I have sub reinforcement so the overall bass balance is still good. Frequencies came together and the treble prominence was gone. I could stare at the speaker and still not hear the sound from it direct. Imaging was incredible, stereo image locked dead centre. Even just plonking them in the first available space, completely amazed. Out of curiosity I picked up a pair of fostex full range speakers in a back loaded horn cabinet, appear to be a 126en or similar. This is just my theory though as trying small bookshelf speakers is less of an issue. Likely the large boxes lack breathing space, there are odd reflections and the cluster arrangement of the drivers means I'm sitting too close and the three way can't come together in time. The image is non-existent and treble seems really pronounced and harsh. The issue? There is a lack of coherency with the mids, trebles and bass all over the place. The result has been quite unsatisfying and meant constant change in pursuit of something which works better. The result has been a tight layout, speakers ~1.2m apart and a seat virtually touching distance at a stretch. ![]() The room itself was only 3.5m x 2.2m to start with. With the arrival of child however the small spare bedroom became the listening space and I mean small once all the bookshelves and other bric a brac is in there. This worked fantastically in the old space, open lounge with vaulted ceilings and a good few metres between the speakers. I found that I loved the effortlessness and impact of a big bass driver and ended up with Yamaha NS1000m, a nice 12" woofer. Over the course of many years I moved from small speakers to ones with larger and larger bass units. ![]()
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