It’s all about where you’re willing to compromise. I have a diy 6.5-inch ported bookshelf speaker that I think sounds great — for what it is. The mid-range is just very sweet and the highs are good. But I added a subwoofer soon after. Looking at my speaker measurement w/o the sub, I’ve got a nice 100Hz to about 8 kHz spectrum. That used drivers costing $100 each, so not cheap-o but not fancy either, with neodymium magnet and a cast basket, so good construction. And I tuned them pretty carefully with acoustic stuffing and port size. Put on girl-with-a-guitar music, or “unplugged” Clapton or Nils Lofgren, or moderate-level jazz or combo, or chamber music or piano solo, and they do great, a real pure sound. And think about it — that’s a lot of great music! It’s probably about the time domain and point source and other stuff I’m not competent to address. Ask Atmasphere. And they were 95 dB sensitivity for the 15-watt class A amps, so a good team. But not as a do-it-all speaker, I’d say.
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