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Speakers with low distortion at high SPL

Fluffy

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What speakers demonstrate low harmonic distortion at high DB SPL? By high I mean something like the 96 DB that amir uses, that usually leads to worse performance due to woofer break up and other phenomena. What characteristics should a speaker have to play cleanly at high SPLs? Large woofers? A number of drivers per frequency range? Dividing the spectrum among more drivers (=more crossover points)? Horns? Specific woofer materials?
 

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Generally speaking, you're going to need multiple, larger woofers and/or higher sensitivity speakers with more power handling capability.
 

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Th JBL M2, the Neumann KH420, are 2 that come to mind.
if you included horns, there are many.
 

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Exponential horns.
Focal.
 

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Efficiency.
Cooling of voice coils.
You can check cinema loudspeakers to see what you need to play at high SPL
Here is example of what you need to play loud https://jblpro.com/en/products/5742
You can observe their catalog on cinema speakers and you'll see how it is achieved
For even more SPL you can check concert equipment like line arrays - the idea is instead of using large horns to stack A LOT of speakers in a configuration needed.
 
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