Talk:Multi-driver loudspeaker system

Home hi-fi focus
The subject is wide but the focus seems to be narrowly defined by home high fidelity with a smidgeon of car audio. There a lot more possibilities than that, especially when considering the many sorts of solutions found in professional concert audio. I took out some of the statements that came into immediate conflict with my personal experience in pro audio, and I put fact tags on a bunch more. I don't think it will be easy finding a source for your assertion that "Any sound system that is considered high-fidelity uses a multi-driver loudspeaker system", for instance. I happen to know there are people who think that the purity of a single wideband driver is more hi-fi than all the filtering and processing necessary to make multi-way systems work well. Me, I'm a multi-way fan, but the article can't steamroller over these other valid opinions. Binksternet (talk) 04:31, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

bad ref
Ref #1, as this is written, is wrong. The patnet title is correct, but the patent cited is for a particular variety of multiple speaker design. And, in any case, multiple driver speaker systems are much older than that patent. ww (talk) 05:01, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * ww, do you mean the Dahlquist ? If so, I've added some prior art and put Dahlquist in perspective somewhat, though there's a lot of history being skipped between the '30s and the '70s. The history section could use one or two more relevant patent cites. Binksternet (talk) 11:34, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
This article has been proposed for deletion. I believe this article contains redundant information found at Loudspeaker, and the subject matter is better suited to expansion within the Loudspeaker article. A great many loudspeakers are multi-driver models, and covering them all in one umbrella article is best for the reader, in my opinion. Binksternet (talk) 16:12, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge
This article clearly has enough content to stand on it's own. Also, if it were merged with loudspeaker, which is already a rather lengthy page, that article would start to become too long. It is standard policy on Wikipedia for articles to be split when they get too long. Backup1 (talk) 19:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge continued
It has already been proposed that loudspeaker be split as it is, Talk:loudspeaker, so why add to it. Loudspeaker refers more to the actuall driver, whereas Multi-driver loudspeaker systems is more about speaker systems. Backup1 (talk) 19:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you haven't yet seen the Speaker driver article, which concentrates on the individual driver, letting Loudspeaker take over for all the related parts and systems. Binksternet (talk) 20:03, 22 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge action has been initiated. Binksternet (talk) 19:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)