I'm not sure if I follow. I may be looking at the wrong Seas drivers but the W18 or W22 are not full range drivers and at 88 dB I wouldn't categorize then as highly efficient. I thought you were talking about high efficiency full range single drivers - like what I have in my Omega Super Alnico Monitors. I think they sound fantastic for certain genres of music where upper bass through lower treble region is more dense than other regions. The high efficiency combined with the lack of a crossover gives single drivers a perceived sense of immediacy that is quite noticeable.
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Yes the W18,W22 older model Excel Magnisium are low eff at 87,
I would prefer to havea single W22 Graphene Magnesium the new flagship midbass as adding extra low end for my future Vox 8 98 db eff single source.
The Thors dual W18's will be employed for that task.
Perhaps the Vox 8 does go as the specs say, donw to 20hz. who knows.
In my limited expm f FR single source drivers,, the soundstage can seem a bit flat.
When I added the dual w18's in the system the sound field has more depth, width.
Seas really engineered a world class midbass in their Excel technology, Magnesium seems to be the most perfect cone material in low bass asa bonus the low midrange is pure , clean, natural.
The Millenium dome tweet suffers the same weaknesses as all dome tweeters.
The Millenium is the only weakness in my system, But its a big liability,
AS midrange is 90++ % of the music.
Seas in the Millenium and their new flagship the Cresendo , are attempting for this 1.3 inch dome tweeter to handle both low mids and upper highs.
I must say the human voice is extemely accurate, no fatigue, no muddiness.
It is the soundstage, too small for my classical music.
Here is where a high quality FR can out perform any dome tweeter in production from Scanspeak and seas.
Sure a high quality pure dome tweeter can work excellent in the highs, but then what do we do with mids??
Here is where a high quality FR can outperform any midrange/tweeter combination.
There is so much music left unheard , due to low db sens lack of ~~transparency~~.
The subtilities, nuances in any recording medium are so muffled in a low eff driver. These nuances can be detected when a FR acting as mid/high driver is employed.
Bass is just a bonus.
But is it enough low end, with fullness, depth?
The thing with these high sens FR drivers anda 100watt PP/KY88, is the limits on the gain, Just a pinch of the vol and its already loud enough.
But now the PP can drive the 87db W18's.
its going to have to work.
W18's @ 87db + FR8 @ 98db
I'm running the W18's with a FR8/94db, and works** just fine**.
Huge caveat here
Thing is vol is hardly at 8 oclock. More like 7 oclock. Yeah I know I'm only using say 10 watts of the Defy7's 100..
It IS what IT is.