Single way or multiway


The founder and builder of the highly respected high-end speaker company Gauder AkustikDr. Gauder, says that using a full-range driver is very bad. He uses 3- to 4-way speakers with extremely complex 10th-order crossovers consisting of 58–60 components.

In contrast, some other well-known and equally respected speaker companies — such as Voxativ, Zu, Cube Audio, and Totem — use crossoverless designs.

Who is right, and who is wrong?

bache

Less in the signal path the better. IMO.   i.e. less is more.

10th order wow that’s a lot of crossover components in the signal path. 

From my experience no crossover sounds very good, but not all single drivers can do full range (or close to it) well, there are limitations of course.

I’ve never heard of this manufacturer before, I had to google them.

It depends on what your listening priorities are.  

Each are capable of delivering high end sound quality with the right application and supporting system.  

Edit- there are very few truly single driver speakers on the market.   

Different designs, different trade-offs, different strengths. All this is particularly evident in speaker design. There are so many approaches and different sounds. Definitely no right or wrong. Different tastes / different solutions.