Canton Vento Reference 3 DC

[shadyJ]

^ in the real world how much of that is audible that you can hear?

Break-up can be very audible and ruinous to the sound. You can still use drivers that run into severe break-up modes, but the response has to be heavily filtered to make the modes inaudible. Break-up modes are one of the reasons why I have never heard a full-range driver speaker that I have liked.

I should add that you can still make a perfectly fine speaker using titanium. You just have to properly filter out the cone break-up with the crossover circuit.

 

[redboat77]

^ in the real world how much of that is audible that you can hear?

Of course, one would have to listen to the actual speakers, but increasing the primary (2nd and 3rd order) harmonics generated by nonlinearities by 100% is concerning to me. Harmonic distortion seems to be a good stand-in for measuring the audio detail offered by speakers. My limited past experience with high end speakers indicates this is where they qualitatively depart most radically from more compromised implementations.