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Geoff Gunnell wrote:
 In residential designs, intelligent choice of drivers and crossovers generally results in the mid-woofs and/or woofers reaching their limits first on standard program material -- so there's usually no need to go away from a single point source for the highest frequencies (with the exceptions noted above). |
I would completely disagree, but I guess you did throw in a qualitative limiter; "Intelligent choice". Without defining what that specifically means, in a speaker design, the tweeter will be the weak link since you can't use multiple tweeters, except in a line array. Because of that, a single dome tweeter will limit output to the 112-115db range, where as it's possible to have woofers capable of delivering 130db+. Ribbon tweeters and planars will bump that output up a bit, as will compression drivers.