Speakers The single most critical component

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FR = Full Range .. HA! I get it

unfortunately, despite your passion, you are incorrect. Full range drivers as dletch2 pointed out are inherently flawed, just like all speakers are inherently flawed. This is the reason they are the most critical component. Obviously you prefer to live with the flaws inherent in FR drivers. However, others prefer to live with the flaws in other designs.. my preference is horns as you can see from my system.

Modern day sources and amplifiers are approaching perfection relative to what has been achieved with speakers therefore one must choose a speaker they are willing to tolerate and then feed it with whatever maximizes its strengths and minimizes its weaknesses.

It really is irrefutable... you are welcome

FR = Full Range .. HA! I get it

unfortunately, despite your passion, you are incorrect. Full range drivers as dletch2 pointed out are inherently flawed, just like all speakers are inherently flawed. This is the reason they are the most critical component. Obviously you prefer to live with the flaws inherent in FR drivers. However, others prefer to live with the flaws in other designs.. my preference is horns as you can see from my system.

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You beat me to this valid assesstion of Quote *FULL RANGE*
This very thought occured to me, just now while having morning coffee, and now i see your post, which has validity, but must be examined carefully. 
FR = not full range. There is a  post above somewhere on this topic, a  member has tried them all, and  from exp , suggests all FR need a  additive tweet.
No big de4al. 
Yep you heard me right no big crisis there.
*Flaws*
I've only heard this chinese clone of Diatone 6.5, In my YT vid I exclim has all things, highs, mids, bass.
Thats not true, 
has bass, has mids, highs are rolled off.Terribly, No big complaint from me, AS classical muisc is 90% and in fact most music is 90% midrange, HOWEVER to have jazz/female vocals to have proper *ambience** you absoluetly must have shimmering/crystline sonics in the upper registers.
Otherwise ya ain't got nothing.
Simple solution, \add a  21st Century tweeter.
Issue resolved. TI Compression horn which can be found in the hundreds of offerings , from super budget to braek the bank priced.
Compression tweets are the finest driver in high fq's, 2nd to none
So we will have the 
Midrange/bass fq's being voiced by the so misnomer driver *The Full Range* and the high fq's being delivered by the world calss , super high fidelity, 21st C driver = The Compression Horn
There now argue your case that all speakers are flawed.
Which is both true and not true.
Box/xover/Seas ScanSpeaks/Troels Gravensen are flawed to the point they are now The Dinasaur line of <,THe Wet Blanket> experience in speakers.
THese old flawed low efficient speakers are not just flawed, but useless when heard next to just about any *Fukll Range/TI Compression* set up.

This is the point of my entire postings. 
Flawed yes they are, HOWEVER that minisclue lack of high fq's can be easily overcome addinga  TI Horn,. 

Whereas low efficient speakers, the flaws are glaring, permament, and worthless when paired with any tube amplification system. 
Cables, wires, sources, amps,  boutique caps, boutique resistors, go ahead and tweak all,  You will only gaina  Mini-Scule nuance in each component over low price to high priced.
Speakers , now here is the Elephant in the room nuance/tweak. 
Speakers are everything when pair with tube amplification. 
Full Range is a   misnomer, Yet at least there is no wet blanket over the music such as any speaker with lower than 90db will offer. 
Which is why my threshold point in sens is 94db/higher. This elimintes all traditional box/xover style The Dinasaurs. 
I rest my case.

Obviously you prefer to live with the flaws inherent in FR drivers. However, others prefer to live with the flaws in other designs..
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Vs the blaring, obnoxious, horrid,  flaws of the traditional box xover designs, Yes I can happily , comfortably, enJOYably listen to the flaws in the FR design. 

Mr Mozart... we may differ on details but fundamentally agree. The path to the truth for me is highly efficient speakers and low powered amplifiers. That has led me to the horns I have today which are around 110dB efficient

• 30-180 Hz covered by the bass horn with a single inductor as a low pass filter
• mid range horn that naturally rolls off 180-2200 Hz with no crossover
• high frequency horn with a single capacitor as high pass filter

Perfect? .. no

People who say horns blare or honk are misinformed, mostly parroting what they’ve read as they have obviously never heard a properly designed and implemented horn system. If I didn’t have the space for the horns I would go with a so called full range driver like a Lowther or other similar design perhaps supplemented by a horn tweeter as you suggest.

In any case, we agree that low efficiency, multi driver speakers in boxes with complex crossovers unsuccessfully trying to get them integrated is not the way to go

In any case, we agree that low efficiency, multi driver speakers in boxes with complex crossovers unsuccessfully trying to get them integrated is not the way to go

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WEll yes and no, 
This speaker discussion is a  tricky argument. 
AT this point i owe Troels Gravensen a  apology, Treols does in fact offer a few of his designs with 92db box/xover designs. So my Thors are 87 which is rediculously low, His 92db are acceptable and may be of some interest to those not willing to go FR/Horn. 
My listening room is 10x12, I can not employa  huge horn 3 way system and HUGE sound stage is not my goal, 
Easy listening , no fatigue is my goal.
I'm guessing your 3 way horn system is highly accurate  with stunning sound stage, 
But the size and most important the weight.
A single 8 inch FR can be built usinga snaded plywood cabinet, UNDER!!!! 40 lbs each.  HUGE benifit from a  low weight, small framce speaker, 
Here is where Troels gets in trouble with his 2 offerings of 92db speakers, 
The size and WEIGHT, 
Some of us are getting up in age and we have no use for any speaker over say,,,50 lbs. 
The Thors come in at 60 lbs, just ridiculous.

Not sure what Troels weight comes in at but they sure look heavy..and the price? = $$$$$$$$$
Lets go see

http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/CNO-4.htm

Ohh look Troels is using the SEAS Cresendo tweet, SEas flagship which is NOT 92db, more like 87 or 89, so not sure where he is getting hhis 92db out of this speaker, Weight?
Does not say,,looks like she's a 100+ pounder, 60 lbs over my threshold.
+ the price? 
does not say, To havea  local carpenter to build that exact cabinet $3k 
+ the xovers/drivers , add another $3k+
so lets say $6k fora  *92db* box/xover style speaker, 
VS
Voxativ's 96db AC1C single driver.
@ $1900,  build your own cabinet @ $100. weight, under 50 lbs. 
Troels does very nice speakers in his lab, thing is they are dated vs the new technology from Voxativ.
Voxativ allows the music to flow naturally, you connect to the sound as if it is alive, a  living presence.
Troel's designs sounds like music comming froma box. It attacks you. 
Mostly due to the low 92 db sensitivity. 
Yeah 92db is low in my book. 
The Golden Threshold is 94db.