Well, I got my pair of the little Daytons and took a quick listen and some measurements. I've never been able to replicate noaudiophile's measurements--I think he's getting a room response, which makes interpretation very difficult. My samples did better than his up to 3 kHz. The slightly rough response between 1k and 2k is centered lower on mine, and doesn't protrude above the mid-bass-lower midrange level. The tweeter does start to take off at 4.5k, but it trends up smoothly and keeps going until 20 khz, where it's over 10 dB higher than the average response below 4.5k. So, it would be easy to produce a basically flat response with some fairly minor crossover tweaks. However------------these things are crazy insensitive. Mine clock in at 80 dB. That's not surprising when you look at the woofer. It's a very beefy unit designed for maximum bass extension, which it accomplishes. But there's no way a woofer that small can go that deep and still maintain reasonable sensitivity. When I was comparing them with my BMR's, which aren't exactly in the Klipsch sensitivity neighborhood, I had to boost the output on my A-B switching preamp by 5 notches to get a reasonable match in SPL. So I'm torn. With the right crossover, they would be killer surrounds and desktops. But is there any market for accurate mini's that would require way over twice as much power as my BMR's (or Phil 3's) to reach loud output levels?
