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Near Full Range, Highly efficient Stand Monitors?

Okay just curious, who builds a very efficient, maybe 95 db or better monitor/bookshelf type speaker, maybe with at least an 8" driver that goes reasonably deep into the 30 hz ranges?
Seems most would be rated around only 45 hz or up, most single driver designs in a small cabinet even vented would not go very low.. Anything? Even down to about 38 hz or so with a stable 8 ohm load, having some actual bass output?

Thanks
undertow
tweak1
3,653 posts
 
Reference 3 A MM de Capos- killer and just one cap as a crossover to the tweeter, biwire/biampable. Huge sound stage.
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
even many bigger boxes don't really go into the 30's
dan31
17 posts
 
I have been surprised with the bass out of my Dynaudio Special 25's. Stereophile measured them at 89 db/1w and the impedence is around 6 ohms. They say 15w for a small space. I have to attenuate my preamp due to excessive volume.
usarrn
21 posts
 
See thread above titled: "Pros and Cons of built-in amps?"
drew_eckhardt
394 posts
 
Hoffman's iron law states that the efficiency of a system is proportional to its cabinet volume and inversely proportional to the cube of its cutoff frequency.

If you could make a bookshelf speaker 95dB efficient at 60Hz, maintaining the same efficiency at 30Hz would require 8X the volume which you could get from doubling each of its measurement.

You'd really be better off with a floor stander that has the same footprint (it can pickup nearly 6dB from the floor) or separate sub-woofer (which can have boost from operating into a smaller space and/or a big amplifier to compensate for the small box).
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