Does anyone use 2 full range drivers on each side? It's pretty "common knowledge" that this will sound terrible and lead to horrible comb filtering, yet when taken to the extreme with line arrays it doesn't seem to be an issue and in room there are so many reflections that my belief is that comb filtering is a non-issue in most real applications. So I used 2 Dayton RS100-4's in a ported box on each side crossed at 90hz and running up to 20k. At first listen I felt I could hear comb-filtering and that it sounded weird somehow. So I played a sine wave and could definitely hear the comb filtering and assumed my experiment concluded. I let the speakers sit until I got to returning them to 1 RS100 per side. But being the lazy person that I am I left it for a while until I noticed, I didn't hear that weird comb filtering effect I thought I had heard before. I think it may have been placebo and now that I've had this setup for about 6 months I'm convinced comb filtering is a non issue in most real world applications. It makes sense to me that the acoustics of being in a room would cause all of the reflections to make the two main signals being out of phase an unnoticeable issue.
Now I have no proof to this other than my own observation, but I would like to do an abx test where I compare 1 Dayton to 2 at a low enough volume that the excursion is a non issue. Has anyone else tried just using 2 drivers like this? Also the reason that I did this is similar to why line arrays are done, to decrease distortion and also be able to lower the crossover
Now I have no proof to this other than my own observation, but I would like to do an abx test where I compare 1 Dayton to 2 at a low enough volume that the excursion is a non issue. Has anyone else tried just using 2 drivers like this? Also the reason that I did this is similar to why line arrays are done, to decrease distortion and also be able to lower the crossover