Audiokinesis, nice post. But re differing driver efficiencies and compression limits: why are these related?
The higher sensitivity driver (almost always the tweeter) is padded anyway, so compression issues would be unrelated to efficiencies, no? Not relevant here anyway, but just a thought. I would think that speakers that have a "right" volume only are (accidentally?)designed to produce an inroom response that flattens out VIS-A-VIS our fletcher-munsoned ears. It's an interesting point. In addition to symmetrical "droops" with lowered SPLs, I wonder if the best designers also have to factor in off-axis flare smmothness AT DIFFERENT SPLs to get a speaker that sounds balanced in a wide range of volumes? Interesting....
