Big full range multi driver speakers?

[Flaesh]

Too small for this thread :прохладный:.

 

[EJ3]

Not big enough for this thread.

I was debating but not so much about the size (although: that, too), but about the question: does 2 drivers count as MULTI?

 

[ChrisG]

J5-4015 | Danley Sound Labs

www.danleysoundlabs.com

Anything less is just playing at it.

 

[levimax]

J5-4015 | Danley Sound Labs

www.danleysoundlabs.com

Anything less is just playing at it.

Only plays to 37 Hz? I guess you need a sub then? Also isn't 160 dB lethal

 

[EJ3]

Only plays to 37 Hz? I guess you need a sub then? Also isn't 160 dB lethal

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I'm pretty sure that you are not required to test that level out when you at sitting in your living room (1 meter, h'mm that's more than desktop top distance). I can see the headlines now: "Man kills self because he just had to see if he could handle his stereo at full volume in his living room." The authorities had to cut the power to the home to kill the sound before they could enter the home.

 

[mhardy6647]

Over the years, many loudspeaker designs have made very good use of multiple, smaller woofers.
A personal fave, the Braun/ads L-710.

(sorry things were kind of dusty when I took a grille-off photo of this one many years ago)

 

[ChrisG]

Only plays to 37 Hz? I guess you need a sub then? Also isn't 160 dB lethal

Headroom is always a good thing

 

[dlaloum]

I consider the Vandersteen Model 2's I used to own to be "bigger" but was looking for something with better performance and sound. I guess size is a relative. By full-range, I mean the speaker hopefully produces tones down to subwoofer range, in addition to extended highs.

So the Audioengine S6 subwoofer has a low end extension down to 33Hz - do speakers that reach 33Hz (-3db) meet your criteria for "full range"?

And the Proac Response D2 Bookshelf speakers are specified with a frequency response down to 30Hz - are they "Big"?

 

[EJ3]

So the Audioengine S6 subwoofer has a low end extension down to 33Hz - do speakers that reach 33Hz (-3db) meet your criteria for "full range"?

And the Proac Response D2 Bookshelf speakers are specified with a frequency response down to 30Hz - are they "Big"?

There seems to be a nomenclature issue here as to what constitutes "full range" (originally meaning a single speaker with a "wizzer" cone, I believe) typically used in table radios & such in the 50's & 60's. And was basically the complete range of the human voice (maybe + a bit at both low & high ends).
In the 60's & 70's (I was bitten by the audio bug around 1971, when I was around 14), the definition seemed to have expanded to a bit more that was around 50Hz (F10, maybe) through 15 KHz (what some home stereo radios where capable of).
Then it seemed to expand to around 40 Hz-16 KHz or so.
To my knowledge (and, I have been wrong before [if you don't believe me, just ask my wife, she'll tell you that it's true]), it has never meant what is considered the full frequency spectrum of average human hearing under very good conditions: (20 Hz- 20 KHz).
So the term "full range" is a somewhat nebulous and ill defined way of saying "I can hear it pretty well" (which is not particularly well defined, either).

 

[EJ3]

So the Audioengine S6 subwoofer has a low end extension down to 33Hz - do speakers that reach 33Hz (-3db) meet your criteria for "full range"?

And the Proac Response D2 Bookshelf speakers are specified with a frequency response down to 30Hz - are they "Big"?

I wanted to add that, for me, personally, the full range (that I can hear): would be 20 Hz-15 KHz & that my right ear has a gap from 7 KHz-8 KHz.