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In the Forum: Audio For Dummies ™
In the Thread: About Single Driver Speakers and their idiots owners.
Post Subject: Of course you can do it.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/11/2010
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 zanon wrote:
Romy:

I was not aware that manufacturers of multidriver system let you attenuate individual drivers. I guess if you multi-amp, then you have control at that level. I have never encountered such a system so I cannot say, but if it is an option, then yes, it is a big advantage of multi-way over single driver.

In general though, people completely ignore room setup and it has a big impact on sound, up to lower midrange. You can do a lot to manipulate sound via placement, which is true of single and multi of course.

It would be interesting to see how many people who have off the shelf multiway system have actually attenuated an individual driver.
And it is not that you can do it but it is a very common practice. Some manufacturers offer actuators of sometime tapping pads. I think even the largest Wilsons offer a set of series resistors for crossovers to attenuate HF. It is very common practice to cover the ports for ported design to get more proper response for given speaker for a given room. Some manufacturers even offer along with the speakers special inserts made for the ports. I have old and ugly Altec 19 home that has tweeter and MF attenuator – stupidly done but nevertheless… And of course any person who has ears and do not care too much about the shiny glossy surface of the speakers would do to them whatever s/he want in order to get from them the sound that s/he wants. The hole point is that with a single-driver speakers there is no options besides to boil them for 30 minutes in sulfuric acid.

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