High-Efficiency Single Driver Speaker System


For those of you who have gone to the 'Dark-side'---a high-efficiency single driver system and never looked back, I'd like to get your feedback on two specific things: 1)What type of music do you mostly listen to, and 2)What are the most appealing characteristics that you find lacking in more traditional lower efficient, high power amplifier-based system. I currently have a custom EL34 JWN amp rated around 35-45 watts and I'm considering going this route after having been in the more traditional camp for over twenty years. Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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 Designing a single-driver speaker is very difficult since that driver needs to cover the entire frequency band. i stating that one problem with such speakers is that they perform poorly at the frequency spectrum’s upper and lower ends.   My company Bacheaudio  further stated that he tried adding a tweeter to his early speaker models, but got poor top-end results. we also tried pairing the speakers with subwoofers, but found that a suck out in the upper bass to middle-midrange region of about 100 to 500Hz caused voices and instruments such as piano and cello to sound thin.

 

What Bache audio ultimately gravitated towards was the so-called “augmented wide-band” (AWB) speaker, which uses a single wide-band driver that covers a large portion of the audible frequency band accompanied by several of what he calls “helper” drivers, in this case a super tweeter and one or more woofers. we states that this hybrid design incorporates the best attributes of the one-way designs (exceptional dynamics and coherence) and their three-way counterparts (excellent frequency extension and dispersion characteristics and the ability to play loudly without distorting).