Driver size (physically) is the answer to the OP question. The manufacture, SEEMS to hold to the same principal, without knowing the OPs actual speakers...
The physical size of a typical cone / basket speaker is the only physical limitation of the actual driver... (materials may very) AGAIN 5" drivers don’t do 20 hz any more that 12" drivers do 2500 hz well. I don’t care how well it’s manufactured or wave guide added. They (12") are limited physically.. to lower frequencies, just like smaller drivers are limited to higher frequencies..
The exception is multi driver application.. lobing is an issue then..BUT by careful design (length of the array) in comparison to room height, and XO design ALL of that is just that, "designed into the speaker.". A bad design goes a long ways. Just like a good one does...
Correct driver and application ARE the way to better sound..from the "BOX" perspective only... Nothing else.. No rooms, equipment, cables, tweaks, bad hearing, good hearing, or a change of dippers, matter. ONLY the correct application of a given driver..
When I say correct, I mean I check if the driver lives up to the manufacture claims.. maybe 50% of the one I’ve tested do. Seas is one of the best cone drivers I’ve ever used, just a fact for me.. I wish I could afford their drivers in every build.. Just top notch..
Driver manufactures have been trying to design past it for years... It is just a physical fact... THUS.. Planars... Convex Domes, Rings, and Electro Stats...
I’m not just another pretty face, I’m actually kinda smart...ebm (self proclaimed of course). I know, I can build a better speaker enclosure than most of the older designs.. the newer CnC stuff.. Tough to hand craft some of the designs.. Really no need to . It is mostly window dressing anyway...
Aluminum, @Corian and exotics being the exception..$$$$$ I remember a single log (TREE) went for over 1.2 million just for the veneers. 30 years ago.. I though I spent money that day.. 8-900.00 dollars.. LOL I was just blown away.. For a church build of all things..
Regards
The physical size of a typical cone / basket speaker is the only physical limitation of the actual driver... (materials may very) AGAIN 5" drivers don’t do 20 hz any more that 12" drivers do 2500 hz well. I don’t care how well it’s manufactured or wave guide added. They (12") are limited physically.. to lower frequencies, just like smaller drivers are limited to higher frequencies..
The exception is multi driver application.. lobing is an issue then..BUT by careful design (length of the array) in comparison to room height, and XO design ALL of that is just that, "designed into the speaker.". A bad design goes a long ways. Just like a good one does...
Correct driver and application ARE the way to better sound..from the "BOX" perspective only... Nothing else.. No rooms, equipment, cables, tweaks, bad hearing, good hearing, or a change of dippers, matter. ONLY the correct application of a given driver..
When I say correct, I mean I check if the driver lives up to the manufacture claims.. maybe 50% of the one I’ve tested do. Seas is one of the best cone drivers I’ve ever used, just a fact for me.. I wish I could afford their drivers in every build.. Just top notch..
Driver manufactures have been trying to design past it for years... It is just a physical fact... THUS.. Planars... Convex Domes, Rings, and Electro Stats...
I’m not just another pretty face, I’m actually kinda smart...ebm (self proclaimed of course). I know, I can build a better speaker enclosure than most of the older designs.. the newer CnC stuff.. Tough to hand craft some of the designs.. Really no need to . It is mostly window dressing anyway...
Aluminum, @Corian and exotics being the exception..$$$$$ I remember a single log (TREE) went for over 1.2 million just for the veneers. 30 years ago.. I though I spent money that day.. 8-900.00 dollars.. LOL I was just blown away.. For a church build of all things..
Regards