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Can a Quality Full Range Speaker be the Limiting Component in a system?

Can a quality full range speaker be the limiting component in a system?

Can it be surpassed by the quality / performance of the upstream chain? Therefore, becoming the bottleneck for overall system performance?

No? Why?

Yes? How so?

Examples for both scenarios, if you have them.

For the sake of argument, assume that the speaker's performance has been fully optimized. In other words, the room, cabling, isolation, setup/positioning etc are not factors. In other words, assume it's the best it can be.

Thank You!

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Note: this is not about any specific speaker I own or have demo'd/heard. 
david_ten

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erik_squires
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I am having trouble not reducing this down to a very simple question:

"Are quality loudspeakers ever non-linear"

to which the answer is of course yes. But if you want some simple terms, how about dynamic compression? That is, +3dB input results in less than 3dB increase in output. Very common situation which many speakers suffer from.

Best,

E
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