Can anyone briefly explain what are the advantages /disadvantages of multiplying drivers (Triangle Magellan, Tyler Woodmere to name a couple) vs. more traditional designs (1 tweeter, 1 medium, 1 woofer)? My intuition would be to allow for better vertical imaging but at the expense of integration and since this is the true Art & Science of speaker building, why would anyone flirt with the disintegration risk?
Multiple drivers increase the cone area, so that each driver needs to work less hard. This is a step in the direction of a planar speaker. If you want to get the dispersion characteristics identified by Kal you really need a "line array" consisting of eight or more drivers.
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