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So many drivers.....better sound or just more sound?

I am sitting in Seattle cut off from my job by the virus: the world all around me is going nutsy....so naturally my mind drifted to the question....."why so many drivers in some speakers?"  This has bugged me since i first heard the Pipedreams (twenty or so 4 inch drivers all the same in a row.... such a different design principle.  I would think you would want the best driver you could afford for a given application....cover the frequency range as accurately as you can afford and then worry about volume level, air moved etc.  For instance, i heard some McIntosh speakers at a friend's house a few months back.  they had 12 mids and 4 high drivers if i remember.  I guess maybe a bigger sound stage ?  That wan't obvious to me in my listening to them.   Am i missing something obvious?   Legacy speakers use like 11 drivers in a set of speakers.....how can they do that?  I would love to know the cost per driver of various speakers.    Not a deep subject but,  i am addled by rain, boredom and the fear that my 401 k is gone..........
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sm2727
bob540
407 posts
 
Parts Express/Dayton Audio has a speaker kit (also available as a finished product) that features an arcing array of 4 inch drivers.  I wondered what the advantage of all these little drivers could be, but it might be as millercarbon noted, that spreading the signal over so many drivers reduces the degree to which any one driver has to carry the load in terms of excursion.  I haven’t heard them, as they would require more space than I have.  But they looked interesting.  In case you are interested:

https://www.parts-express.com/epique-cbt24k-line-array-speaker-kit-pair--301-984

Good luck to you in coping with these trying times.
mr_m
1,900 posts
 
"The current reigning champ is Eric Alexander of Tekton."

By whose standards?????
bob540
407 posts
 
Correction: The drivers are 2.5 inches, not 4.  
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millercarbon
12,531 posts
 
Lots of cheap tweeters with breakup ( non pistonic motion ) in the passband is not the answer....

This is what we writers call, "innuendo". Vaguely insulting, it says nothing while making equally vague claims, just really a low down waste of time all around. Thanks. Thanks a lot. You have something to say, say it. Don't waste my time with these silly little insults.
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tomic601
12,895 posts
 
Miller have you suddenly cloned that massive ego into “ we “. ?

instead why not make a reasoned argument for breakup in the passband as self appointed advocate of the “reigning champion” ?


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