Interesting review! What first strikes me is the distortion plots, which show two things:
- For one, the bass between 50 and 100 Hz is very clean compared to lots of other speakers measured here. Most of them have smaller woofers. This shows what good PA drivers are made for. This one in particular seems to be also clean over a larger bandwidth, 1 kHz is too far, it seems.
- The compression driver is not a very low distortion device, even at 96 dB it reaches relatively high distortion in the HF. Luckily not audible, but most dome tweeters do better. They will obviously not have as much headroom. At 96 dB it's way below 1W of power still!
Otherwise not very special. If you look at 100 Hz and up, something like the Genelec 8050B is not doing worse, better even in some cases.
Something else that strikes me is the crossover point chosen here. It's a very modern and advanced 1.5" driver, they can be crossed quite a bit below 1 kHz. The horn/waveguide looks to be about 15" wide. That means that 800 Hz X-over or even a bit lower should be feasible, especially in a studio or home environment. That would have resolved the 1khz resonance, and the dip, and give better directivity.
In any case, for this kind of money, I would expect an active system!
