Domes are extremely good. They are perhaps the best shape for a driver and give the most even dispersion. Small 1 inch domes are very cheap when used as a tweeter (hence extremely popular) and sound great. The likley reason they are not used on most larger drivers is the cost of a huge magnet for such a massive voice coil and the challenge (extreme tolerances) required to control the rocking motion. Rocking motion is worse for drivers with large excursions and large voice coils creating a costly engineering challenge to maintain precise linear excursion within the gap. A large woofer with a tiny voice 1 or 2 inch coil that is aligned by a spider and rubber surround is easy and very cheap to make (and also, funnily enough, what you find in 98% of speakers)
This same phenomenon is known in hydraulic engineering - a piston height should be as long as its diameter in order to prevent binding from rocking motion. A small voice coil is akin to a small diameter pistion and can be controlled more precisely with less precision/cost.
This same phenomenon is known in hydraulic engineering - a piston height should be as long as its diameter in order to prevent binding from rocking motion. A small voice coil is akin to a small diameter pistion and can be controlled more precisely with less precision/cost.