When I added a subwoofer to my audio setup, something we noticed was how much better the midrange and highs were (in addition to the bass). There seems to be received wisdom that limiting the bandwidth of a speaker helps it sound better. I presume this would be because there is less non-linearity in the speaker caused by less physical and electromagnetic interactions between the frequencies.
Does anyone have some information on this? For example, would a 3 way speaker plus subwoofer (4 channels total) sound better than a 2 way if the 3 way had 2 identical midranges, but fed with different frequency bands, e.g. 20-80 for the subwoofer, 80 - 2K for midrange A, 2K - 6K for midrange B, and >6K for the tweeter or something similar? The 2 way for comparison would have something like 80 - 6K for the midrange and >6K for the tweeter or something similar. My question isn't about specific crossover frequencies, it's whether splitting the bandwidth to the drivers would improve the overall sound.
I'm assuming all active channels with DSP crossover, so for a complete system, 1 subwoofer, 2 speaker boxes each with 1 tweeter and 2 midranges, 7 amplifiers and dsp's for all the crossovers.
Does anyone have some information on this? For example, would a 3 way speaker plus subwoofer (4 channels total) sound better than a 2 way if the 3 way had 2 identical midranges, but fed with different frequency bands, e.g. 20-80 for the subwoofer, 80 - 2K for midrange A, 2K - 6K for midrange B, and >6K for the tweeter or something similar? The 2 way for comparison would have something like 80 - 6K for the midrange and >6K for the tweeter or something similar. My question isn't about specific crossover frequencies, it's whether splitting the bandwidth to the drivers would improve the overall sound.
I'm assuming all active channels with DSP crossover, so for a complete system, 1 subwoofer, 2 speaker boxes each with 1 tweeter and 2 midranges, 7 amplifiers and dsp's for all the crossovers.