So you define mid-bass as 20hz-150hz...interesting🤣 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
all woofers are basically **mid-bass drivers*** and note most every high end tweeer is labeled **mid-tweeter*. 10hz-100hz 100hz-500hz 500hz-1khz 1k-1500hz 1500-2500hz so on and so forth tweeters 50khz(yes AER claims their FR goes to like EIGHTY THOUSAND HZ). But lets keep it realitistic. 20khz so 15khz-20khz 10khz-15khz 5khz-10khz so on and so forth down to say 1800hz(some tweets claim 1800hz some even 1500hz!!!) Here’s the flaw (weakness/distortion/massive rolloff, call it whatever you wish) Woofers should be voiced no more than say 200-400hz. Thats it Tweeters are fantastic little gadgets from 20khz down to say,, tell ya what I’ll give benifit of the doubt to say,,,,3500hz,,sorry can’t be generous to 3khz. The 3khz-3500 hz has some incredible orchestral fq’s which I sure as heck dont want a tiny 3/4 inch VC singing these extremely super critical fq’s, Best I can do for you guys is woofers 20hz - 300hz tweeters 20khz or where yours goes to, I am very happy wityh 15khz, = 15khz-20khz ain’t much there,,so what I do is add a 2nd tweeter for a huge soundstage in the 5khz - 15khz in my orchestra, WOW facor high)..... so 20khz down to 3500hz, I run a 8uf cap, brings both tweets to say 5khz. I had both w a 6uf and was not allowing the tweeter to really open up, a 10uf to say 3500hz is OK in my book. But I perfer dual tweeters w a 8 to 5khz. This allow these guys to not suffer any stresss attempting the 3khz-5khz, = give more energy for the lil guys to do their thing in upper registers w/o getting all flustered and bent out of shape. When you have Puccini soloists, orchestra PLUS CHORUS,, these lil guys can handel their business w success. woofers/tweeters sound like the opera is comming out a box. FR makes a 1950 opera recording sound DDD Super digital, I am at Bayreuth , the mythical soundscape is more surreal. Your xoverbox things sound OK, not bad, but misses all the incredible nuances and registers of a Full Range.
My Thors served me well, but sure glad I made the experiment and that w/o any help from Audiogonners. nada, none, zero. You guys are stuck in the 1970/80’s, STILLLLL
Like Wagner’s rebirth themes, FR are being raised from the lost world of a bygone era. Berlin/Chicago late 1920’s.
I plan to make a long series of YT videos exposing the weaknesses inherent in xover speakers. Just waiting on cash power to purchase my final tweeter its doozyy a massive super dome tweeter. Made for car system but can be employed ina home system as well. The $1700+ Thor upgrade set me back, maybe late June I’ll recover from the Seas upgrades and add in this super dome tweeter. Nothing like it,. Annhiliates any dome tweeter made. 2nd to none. Might have a 3 T system or maybe the Philips AD163(late 1970’s, incredible tweeter) will have to be retired. The speaker gods are about to do battle.
THings I will say in my YT uploads , has not ever been mentioned previously. FR are completely totally opposite of xover/box speakers. Night and day.
Not even close.