Well I gave a pair of the NOLA ko speakers. They have ten drivers in each cabinet. They definitely don't have any disadvantage over much out there on the market. These replaced a pair of nice Dahlquist DQ 20's. All I can say is ten drivers are better than 3.
So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound?
I am sitting in Seattle cut off from my job by the virus: the world all around me is going nutsy....so naturally my mind drifted to the question....."why so many drivers in some speakers?" This has bugged me since i first heard the Pipedreams (twenty or so 4 inch drivers all the same in a row.... such a different design principle. I would think you would want the best driver you could afford for a given application....cover the frequency range as accurately as you can afford and then worry about volume level, air moved etc. For instance, i heard some McIntosh speakers at a friend's house a few months back. they had 12 mids and 4 high drivers if i remember. I guess maybe a bigger sound stage ? That wan't obvious to me in my listening to them. Am i missing something obvious? Legacy speakers use like 11 drivers in a set of speakers.....how can they do that? I would love to know the cost per driver of various speakers. Not a deep subject but, i am addled by rain, boredom and the fear that my 401 k is gone..........
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