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I'm feeling convinced the MAOP are the way to go.

What would I be sacrificing or gaining as I go from one extreme to the other in size?

My preference is that the top end remain as effortless as possible but if the larger drivers sacrifice little in that region I'll go with them because I stand a better chance of excluding subs for simplicity and seamlessness without stitching together two bands with a crossover.
 
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The supertest video from virtualhifi did not include any maop drivers.

Of the ones tested, I liked the CHR-70 the most, with the Pluvia a close 2nd. Everything else seems to have lost some clarity and transparency relative to those. The CHN-70 and the other brands might be enjoyed by some if they focus on the mids or tonal balance, but to me they sounded lo-fi.

My favorite experience I had in a commercial setting was when I was auditioning at one of those ultra high end hifi stores back in the day, and they were playing some jazzy sounding stuff, with shimmering brushed cymbals punctuated by bass drum. The recording had a lot of room ambience in it, and I was impressed by the sense of atmosphere and space in that recording which shone through their excellent system. I don't think the drivers other than the chr-70 or pluvia could pull off the highs in the same way.

Perhaps I'm spoiled by my love of planar drivers.

I'm almost ready to make a purchase but I need to listen to this video a few more times and make sure i'm not just being impressed by the treble response but the actual clarity and to give more attention to mids and midbass. I have linear phase / iir / fir eqs that can fix tone problems at the source and when I'm playing 24-192 my eqs are pretty much transparent.

I'll probably buy 3 pairs of different drivers, keep my favorites and sell the other two.
 
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For about the last 10 years, my choice for mid and top were Bohlender Graebener planar drivers, specifically Neo-3 (original, not PDR), Neo-8, and Neo-8S. Although I still keep them in high regard, MAOP-7 does everything with the same finesse as Neo-8, but has lows, doesn't suffer from beaming, doesn't need a crossover, and doesn't have driver alignment problem. Stereo imaging of a pair of MAOP-7 is top end.

Although this is speculation, I believe MAOP-10 should not differ much from MAOP-7 in mids and highs, but definitely should be more authoritative in the bass as a single driver.
 
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Do you recognize anything here?
 

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What would I be sacrificing or gaining as I go from one extreme to the other in size?

My preference is that the top end remain as effortless as possible but if the larger drivers sacrifice little in that region I'll go with them because I stand a better chance of excluding subs for simplicity and seamlessness without stitching together two bands with a crossover.
(mid)bass on the low end and HF articulation on the high end; for instance; 60 - 20 kHz mean:
(60*20000)^0.5 = ~1095 Hz = ~34400/pi/1095 = ~10 cm dia./4" disphragm, so 5"? frame and drop to 40 Hz/894 Hz and it's a 6"? frame.
 
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sser2

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Yeah, those planar tweeters! On the second picture it looks like Focal midbass. Focal also used the principle of sandwich cone to suppress cone standing waves, fiberglass on front side and paper on back in this case. I have a pair of these, very lightweight cones. Their ultimate sandwich cone is Utopia, used in high end speakers, car audio folks swear by it.
 
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In regards to Q

I have a pair of these laying around which I haven't done anything with yet.

I was thinking they were going to go into an enclosure of about 1.6 ft^3 (45 L) and run them about 100 - 500 Hz ... but what would your assessment say about using them in open baffle?