What are the advantages of a coaxial speaker design?

rintincop2 · 14th May 2004, 02:25 PM

1) What are the advantages of a coaxial speaker design?

2) Is it just that a coaxial takes up less space and the sound output is on the same axis?

3) Or can they sound warmer, rounder, more present and smoother in the near field than a horn loaded speaker?

4) Are coaxial designs as capable of handling greater power and higher volumes as horn loaded speakers?

coaxial cone driver:

sreten · 14th May 2004, 06:29 PM

Simply put consistency of off axis response and none of
the things that you mention. Used to its best advantage
with large bass drivers and a tweeter, where co-incident
mounting does have major advantages.

sreten.

chris ma · 14th May 2004, 06:44 PM

My sole experience with coaxial speakers were the Tannoy Super Red Monitors. They were great with everything except one that I did not like was: in order to have good bass from them you'd have to set the volumn high, but by then the treble became too high of a volumn for my liking. May be there is a way to pad down the treble I do not know.

Just my 2 cents
Chris

Pjotr · 14th May 2004, 07:00 PM

Hi,

The advantage is a consistent dispersion pattern that helps in perfecting stereo imaging. I own a pair of Tannoy 8” Saturns but my Von Schweikert VR1’s sound way better IMHO despite they are no concentrics. Here is a tech paper from Tannoy:

http://www.cortex.westhost.com/tanno...s/dualconc.pdf

Cheers

markp · 14th May 2004, 07:06 PM

Coaxes are point sources, all the sound comes from the same center. This is a good thing along with the voice coils are usually in the same plane.

Timn8ter · 14th May 2004, 07:17 PM

How about a coax in an OB?

14th May 2004, 02:25 PM	#1
rintincop2 diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: USA	What are the advantages of a coaxial speaker design? 1) What are the advantages of a coaxial speaker design? 2) Is it just that a coaxial takes up less space and the sound output is on the same axis? 3) Or can they sound warmer, rounder, more present and smoother in the near field than a horn loaded speaker? 4) Are coaxial designs as capable of handling greater power and higher volumes as horn loaded speakers? coaxial cone driver:

14th May 2004, 07:06 PM	#5
markp diyAudio Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: L.A., CA	Coaxes are point sources, all the sound comes from the same center. This is a good thing along with the voice coils are usually in the same plane. __________________ If it sounds good... it is good!

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14th May 2004, 06:29 PM	#2
sreten diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Brighton UK	Simply put consistency of off axis response and none of the things that you mention. Used to its best advantage with large bass drivers and a tweeter, where co-incident mounting does have major advantages. sreten.

14th May 2004, 06:44 PM	#3
chris ma diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Pickering, Canada	My sole experience with coaxial speakers were the Tannoy Super Red Monitors. They were great with everything except one that I did not like was: in order to have good bass from them you'd have to set the volumn high, but by then the treble became too high of a volumn for my liking. May be there is a way to pad down the treble I do not know. Just my 2 cents Chris

14th May 2004, 07:00 PM	#4
Pjotr diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Netherlands	Hi, The advantage is a consistent dispersion pattern that helps in perfecting stereo imaging. I own a pair of Tannoy 8” Saturns but my Von Schweikert VR1’s sound way better IMHO despite they are no concentrics. Here is a tech paper from Tannoy: http://www.cortex.westhost.com/tanno...s/dualconc.pdf Cheers

14th May 2004, 07:17 PM	#6
Timn8ter diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Seattle, WA	How about a coax in an OB?

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