Coaxial Drivers
discman -- Wed, 04/23/2008 - 21:14
My impression is that for near-field listening (I'm about 2 ft from my speakers) coaxial drivers sound better. Is that just the speakers I'm using (Tannoy) or is there some principle at work here?
Hello Discman,
Although I haven't tried the Tannoys on my desktop. I have used a wide variety of other speakers including some coaxial designs.
Whenever you can get the drivers in closer proximity to each other you make it easier for them to blend together.
I have heard two-way designs in sealed cabinets that have matched coaxials such as the Gallo iDiva in terms of imaging so I wouldn't say that coaxial speakers have a corner on the market.
I think, given all the variables in a near-field system, that a good-performing speaker doesn't HAVE to be coaxial to work well. Obviously coaxial designs do have certain advantages when it comes to imaging, but its not so cut and dried to assume that a top-flight desktop speaker MUST be a coaxial.
Steven Stone
Contributor to The Absolute Sound, EnjoytheMusic.com, Vintage Guitar Magazine, and other fine publications
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