8/3/2023 0 Comments Bookshelf 2 way![]() ![]() Mainly because to reproduce bass frequencies in a room vs the tiny space between the headphone and your ear, you need to move a lot of air. Speakers are not like cans where a single driver can handle the entire spectrum. ![]() You get a dedicated driver for bass, midrange and, tweeter. This takes a lot of stress off them and reduces distortion. The main advantage of a 3 (or more) way speaker is that all the drivers play a narrower frequency band. It looks like this (this image splits what I call diffraction into two - reflection and diffraction): Diffraction is when the sound wave wraps from the driver cone back and bounces off the baffle and comes forward towards you (sort of like an echo of the original wave). The more diffraction, the more loss of fidelity and, the easier it is to localize the speaker. The larger the baffle, the more diffraction. The soundstage goes beyond the boundaries of the speakers and it’s as if the music didn’t originate from them. If it’s done really well, you don’t even need to close your eyes. If you close your eyes and point to the sounds and what you’re pointing to is the speaker, it hasn’t disappeared. “Disappearing” is generally defined as sounds coming from an imaginary soundstage rather than the speaker. The “baffle” is the front of the cabinet. When you say smaller baffle, that’s on the inside of the speaker housing, or a part of the speaker / driver itself? how would you define ‘disappearing?’ would speed be a better word? ![]() I have a three way monitor in a pair of BMR Philharmonics and my desktop monitors are Dynaudio, so 1, 2 and 3 drivers. It really is just a series of tradeoffs based on cabinet size, drivers available, cost and then what is the sonic goal.Īctually in my house I have what amounts to almost a single speaker full range driver in Zu speakers. So even the small one driver Voxitive monitors are like $5k. The drawback to them is that it is VERY difficult to create on driver that does the full spectrum well. They’re wild, wildly expensive but they take that ideal and try to chase it for all its worth. Check out speakers by a German manufacturer call Voxativ. In theory the ideal would be to have only one speaker and no cross over. This however introduces more complexity in the crossover, more cost and if not placed well can lead to a lot of out vertical or horizontal roll off. The primary reason a speaker designer chooses three drivers instead of two is that you can have one drive that does low well, you have a mid driver that does mids well and you have a tweeter that does highs well. What else does a three way hold over a two way system? Here is how the G helps you in the selection. What sound you like and what sound you are looking for and so on. Testing and hearing still is and will be important. Then you could try same manufactures 3-way design in the same range or purpose and hear what you like more. If you find a 2-way speaker / monitor, sound that you like. You could have “big” sized 2-way with roughly same sized 3-way with near the same performance but if you beef up the 3-way one step. They might have bit “more” bass and go lower. ![]() Sounds might have more overall clearness (separate tweeter and midrange) and more bass with better precision as in 3-way. What it has been designed to do and how to perform. Different sounding sound of course and like Jedi mentioned. You basically can go 2-way or 3-way with great end sound. Timing and baffles and all that small nonsense. You have well performing and fully finished products, ready to be used. What is the the general design of the that speaker.īecause good loud speaker manufacturers have figured out all the nitty gritty. Id say its more question of the space/room, listening distance and SPL. ![]()
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