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2-ways and 3-ways

Advantages and disadvantages lie in both speaker designs. But lately there have been great advances in electronic parts(capacitors resistors and other crossovers parts) that would lead me to believe that there may be more pros vs cons to go with a 3-way speaker.
Is this true?
With the better materials used in cones and transducers and crossover parts is either 2-way or 3-way looking better than the other?
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tweak1
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If the "3" is the bass then 2 way is superior. Why? Bass does not load in a room in the same physical location as the highs and mids. Also, as mentioned, the XO is more complex and fixed, whereas powered subs have separate control for volume, XO point and phase/polarity.

The problem with most 2 ways is their designers try to get too much bass from them
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