Single driver vs traditional 3 way loudspeakers

Single driver, no crossovers all the way. I'm open to adding supertweeters and subwoofers bit without a crossover to the single driver.

As you all know, the only reason I come to this site is to completely derail discussion threads, so here I go:

Don't forget the Woofer-assisted wide-band either!

It's kind of like a full-range, but with a woofer.  The main advantage is the lack of a crossover in the midrange/treble region, while still having all that full-body woofer goodness.

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My experience: Why should I give up true full range to get single driver experience?  I don't have to. I've had too many smallish speakers in life to accept loss of frequencies under 40 Hz. To me, that's gutting your system unnecessarily.  Losing anything under 80 Hz would be like reverting to a table radio.  :(     obviously YMMV

Open Baffle full range hybrid with big bass and treble assist is great, win-win imo.
Like the Tri-art Audio Series B 5 Open that I reviewed for Dagogo.com. 

Best of both worlds, gorgeous full range and integrated LF. No screwing around with trying to "assemble " a 3-way speaker.

BTW, I can appreciate that for some lack of coherence in a multi-way speaker is so irritating that they will not accept it. Can’t have it both ways.

 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).