Mozartfan. you are groveling in antiquity. First of all 20 to 40 Hz is an entire octave and all kinds of stuff happens down there that contributes greatly to the realism of the presentation like the thump you get when the bass player's thumb bangs the string. Many synthesizers frequently go that low. Lauri Anderson loved to do that. Systems that lack the ability to project bass under 40 Hz sound like the artificial music makers they are, wimpy.
Arguably the finest tweeter operating on magnetic fields is the Magneplanar ribbon tweeter. The only driver better is an ESL. Some horns are up there. Dynamic drivers are uniformly terrible. They are a poor impedance match to air and they spray high end indiscriminately all over the place bouncing off everything creating a high frequency din that is indecipherable.
You really have to move beyond dynamic drivers with the exception of subwoofers. Ribbons, Planar magnetics, horns and ESLs all done well are seriously superior. And forgetting about 40 Hz and below is the recipe for producing a transistor radio.
Arguably the finest tweeter operating on magnetic fields is the Magneplanar ribbon tweeter. The only driver better is an ESL. Some horns are up there. Dynamic drivers are uniformly terrible. They are a poor impedance match to air and they spray high end indiscriminately all over the place bouncing off everything creating a high frequency din that is indecipherable.
You really have to move beyond dynamic drivers with the exception of subwoofers. Ribbons, Planar magnetics, horns and ESLs all done well are seriously superior. And forgetting about 40 Hz and below is the recipe for producing a transistor radio.