@dougsat I agree. Since building two pairs of open baffle, single driver speakers with no crossovers, I have found that they have virtues that sit them equal to my LS 50s, Klipsch heresy, ones, and AR 2AX’s. I also have measured my hearing and have a slight rolloff beginning at 4000 Hz and continuing through eight and above. Using Roon, I crafted a compensation curve and have been switching it in and out and come to the conclusion that I rather like it on most recordings. So a “flat response “is appealing in some cases butI have found that there are also things to be gained by allowing one self to move away and explore other avenues.
All speakers have a little EQ built in
It may come as a shock to audio purists but part of the work of a crossover is level matching as well as tonal adjustments of individual drivers. Ahem. That's what we call equalization.
This is true whether the speaker uses active or passive crossover, and may be in place just to adjust phase matching in the crossover range.
Also, curiously, while companies may brag about the number of parts in their crossovers, more parts does not indicate more quality. It may just indicate more equalization had to be done to the drivers to get them to match.
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bruce19AR-2ax’s were my 1st decent speakers while in college. LP’s, FM, listened to the nightbird when working late or all night I just restored two pairs of them. 1st sounded so good I got a second pair. restored the crossovers and replaced the L-Pads for tweeter and mid volume adjustments. they sound terrific, using in both my office and garage/shop systems. 2nd pair came with new tweeters, I replaced the tweeters on the 1st pair. a fine example of the advantage of level controls
everything you need is readily available, do a simple 'ar-2ax' search on hifishark.
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