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What type of speaker do you prefer? And why?

Somafunk

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3 way active monitors as in sig below, before that I’ve had 2 way active monitors since early 2000’s - I don’t see the point in passive speakers other than wanting to play around to get the sound that actives have to start with.
 

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Coaxials like Kef or Genelec.

They provide a "compact" sound, making sound feel that it all comes at you in one block and at the same time. I guess the technical notion to describe it is "single point source".
 
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Whatever I can afford. Right now, it's an old par of Infinity Primus 250s with a "Son of Sub" sub from Sonance.

Maybe a bit much for a small room, but it does sound fab, seems to suit the room well.
 

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2 way with 500Hz crossover point. Most of the signal is coming from one driver which has a lot of benefits.
 

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Active 3 way plus subs.
 

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2 way, cross at 180Hz

Like these.

Turns out they have pretty low room interaction, a nice (to me) "in your face" quality at the prime listening position.

Bought in 1998, haven't seriously worried about other speakers since.

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I presume, any speaker with the BBC dip. My 1990 ish Spendor S100's sound "perfect", and indeed "perfecter", since the subs were added
 

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2 way with 500Hz crossover point. Most of the signal is coming from one driver which has a lot of benefits.
Is this a DIY, or a commercial speaker? (or just an ideal?) Wondering what drivers perform really well from 500Hz up..... There is that corundum Peerless tweeter that Spatial Audio uses from about 575Hz upward, but I've never experimented with it.
 

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simple 2way with a sub, perfect for man's cave music listening in full range (almost, in room goes down to 26hz flat following harman target curve) as well as gaming use
 

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I'm constantly toying with idea of in-wall speakers but the thought of unique calibration, DSP, power connection, wall/cabinet rigidity, LF response etc and the dearth of test data keeps me away. The expense and construction disruption are the least of my concerns.
 

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I have been a bookshelf aficionado mainly due to downtown/condo living. I have a pair of Quad ESL’s at the weekend home, these were in storage until we finally had a place to get them up and running. Just to add, condo is 100% streaming while the weekend place is all via cd.
 

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Is this a DIY, or a commercial speaker? (or just an ideal?) Wondering what drivers perform really well from 500Hz up..... There is that corundum Peerless tweeter that Spatial Audio uses from about 575Hz upward, but I've never experimented with it.
Full range horn commercial speaker.
 

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Is there a compression driver out there that can play that low? I don’t think such a think exists.
It is a compression driver; this is routine for these types of drivers.
 

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As I read more and more these days in order to final decision,a combination of wall to ceiling arrays going 20 - 200/300 Hz and two-way(?) for the rest of the FR.
 

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