Single driver full range speakers


Hi,
I am a simple home hobbiest. I've built an great sounding full range single speaker set (so no cross-over,, and that's the point. I don't want a x-over).
But of course it lacks terribly in bass. Is it possible (is it commonly done?) to add a woofer into the cabinet with no cross-over (again, simple straight wire to amp). Would it require wiring in parallel or series?

Currently each speaker has one TangBand W8-1808 full range 8" driver and sounds very good.

Thanks in advance, I really would like to know if this is possible (safe?) to do.
Rob

tunehead

@westcoastaudiophile 

I appreciate that 50Hz to 15KHz is quite extended, but I believe "full range" extends even more. I would not regard the LS3/5A with similar low end performance but a superior high end to be full range either. Perhaps we just define things differently.
 

 

No One Person has been able to hear in use most of the Single Driver Speaker Designs that are in use either from a Commercial or DIY Build background??

For an individual to suggest most Single Driver Speaker don't sound very good is a fantastical statement made without a solid foundation, as a result of their exposure having very very limited experiences.

At best most of the ones heard by an individual, especially an individual who expresses a negative content as their evaluation. Might have been exposed to an End Sound that to them did not sounded very good, if that is an experience had, then I am not to argue.

Any individual is limited in what is able to be experienced and only able to encounter what is a very very small proportion of the entirety of single driver speakers.
Which as a overall quantity, adds up to a minuscule amount of speakers that are actually available to have their End Sound heard and assessed. 


Where the evaluation by an individual of such a small amount of speakers is that all Speakers using Full Range Drivers are no good, is a statement that is extremely deficient in information.

I would strongly suggest such a statement is bordering on worthless.

@pindac 

I do not find any posts that state or even imply that full-range speakers do not sound good or are "no good". I do read a number of posts that detail their shortcomings, as all speakers have, and a few that question the appellation "full range".

" most of them don’t sound very good once the listener gets past the honeymoon phase "

As I stated, " Any individual is limited in what is able to be experienced and only able to encounter what is a very very small proportion of the entirety of single driver speakers. " 

As always my post was to pass on an improved information to somebody who may be looking in on the thread or discover the Thread at another time.

Can't be having such individuals being given information that is substantially askew with incorrect content.

 

@pindac 

Totally agree. Thank you. What I am hearing in my test with single drive is really good. So good it triggered me to go up the ladder to a better more expensive driver, and it did get better. Single driver may not be for everyone, it does have its short comings, but what it does do sounds really wide and alive (to me). It just lacks in the lower regions, and that is to be expected. That is my, in home, listening experience.

@boomerbillone  
I may contact you, maybe a simple schematic? I’m not very electronics savvy (that’s why I initially wanted to try a single crossover-less speaker,, blame the covid lockdown resllesnes LOL). What you subjected is exactly the info/advice I was looking for.... and thank you all for your insite. It has been very enlightening and entertaining.