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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8142614" data-attributes="member: 655960"><p>You'll need to buy a very high quality set of three way speakers in order to benefit from the added midrange speaker. And I'm not aware of any such speakers in a triaxial configuration. One thing I don't like about triaxials is that the tweeter is always much smaller than it is on coaxials. Also, there simply isn't much midrange you're going to get from a 1.5-2 inch driver. In my opinion, you're better off with a coaxial set with a 1" silk or titanium dome tweeter than you are with a triax with a teeny little half inch tweeter that can barely be heard off axis.</p><p></p><p>And if you think about it, 90+% of the triaxes you see are cheap speakers made by companies that are known for building crappy speakers. Either that or, as you've found, the triaxes built by a good company are less expensive than the coaxes. That's because the coaxial tweeters are actually good quality drivers while the mini mids and tweets are not.</p><p></p><p>As for running them at high power, whether two ohms or four, just make sure you set the crossover and gain properly by first testing your head unit for its maximum undistorted volume level. If you skip that step and set the gains by the proper procedure, you're very likely to still be introducing a distorted signal to the amp and thus, the speakers.</p><p></p><p>If set properly, you'll be able to run any set of quality mids at about 125% of rated power with no problems. If not, they will self destruct in 10, 9, 8, ....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8142614, member: 655960"] You'll need to buy a very high quality set of three way speakers in order to benefit from the added midrange speaker. And I'm not aware of any such speakers in a triaxial configuration. One thing I don't like about triaxials is that the tweeter is always much smaller than it is on coaxials. Also, there simply isn't much midrange you're going to get from a 1.5-2 inch driver. In my opinion, you're better off with a coaxial set with a 1" silk or titanium dome tweeter than you are with a triax with a teeny little half inch tweeter that can barely be heard off axis. And if you think about it, 90+% of the triaxes you see are cheap speakers made by companies that are known for building crappy speakers. Either that or, as you've found, the triaxes built by a good company are less expensive than the coaxes. That's because the coaxial tweeters are actually good quality drivers while the mini mids and tweets are not. As for running them at high power, whether two ohms or four, just make sure you set the crossover and gain properly by first testing your head unit for its maximum undistorted volume level. If you skip that step and set the gains by the proper procedure, you're very likely to still be introducing a distorted signal to the amp and thus, the speakers. If set properly, you'll be able to run any set of quality mids at about 125% of rated power with no problems. If not, they will self destruct in 10, 9, 8, .... [/QUOTE]
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