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A full range speaker?

Many claim to be, but how many can handle a full orchestra’s range?

That range is from 26hz to around 12khz including harmonics, but the speakers that can go that low are few and far between. That is a shame, since the grand piano, one of the center points of many orchestral and symphonic performances, needs that lower range to produce a low A fully, however little that key is used.

I used to think it was 32hz, which would handle a Hammond B-3’s full keyboard, so cover most of the musical instruments range, but since having subs have realized how much I am missing without those going down to 25hz with no db’s down.

What would you set as the lower limit of music reproduction for a speaker to be called full range?

 I’m asking you to consider that point where that measurement is -0db’s, which is always different from published spec's.
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djones51
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Your in room response is what matters not the anechoic. Revel Salon 2 are
close-mic down 4db at 20hz but UP 3db at 20hz in room response.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/revel-ultima-salon2-loudspeaker-measurements

The JTR Noesis 215RT is another passive that can do full range. You don’t want flat down or below 20hz it sounds like crap unless you like exaggerated boomy bass in music or have a dead room without boundary reinforcement.
djones51
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Professional active  main monitors using DSP.  Genelec the Ones 8351b or 8361a paired with W371A'S is one solution. 
djones51
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I’ve always understood full range to be 20hz - 20khz very few passives unless they are pretty large can do full range. I don't know of any that will do full range with an FR that looks decent without PEQ preferably DSP. 
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