It also means that drivers must be pushed harder to produce your music. This loss means you need a larger amp to achieve a given listening volume. Passive crossovers also rob power and musicality from the signal, often by 10dB or more. Omega's single driver approach means you get higher quality drivers at their respective price points, because your entire investment is channeled into one driver and a quality cabinet. Quality crossovers and tweeters cost a lot of money. This means that regardless of price, once a crossover is introduced into the signal path, no speaker will ever be quite as coherent or open as even Omega's lowest priced single driver design. Discrepancies in time and phase add to musical clutter, and diminish overall tone and coherency, which ultimately compromise sound quality. The challenge is to produce state of the art, involving, and realistic sounding music at affordable price points. Given enough money, a good speaker designer using a crossover and multiple drivers can do a good job of bringing fundamental notes and overtones back together. There's also no need to have two or more drivers involved, even to reproduce just a single musical note! With single-drivers, there's no crossover or filter between the amp and your speakers, so the signal driving your music is as pure as you can get. Their insertion in the signal path does nothing to improve the integrity or quality of the audio signal. Crossovers are considered by many to be a necessary evil. Yet somehow all these tones and overtones need to come back together to create a cohesive sound as close as possible to the original guitar or oboe. Introduction of a crossover (or filter) in a multi-way speaker means that one driver reproduces the fundamental tone, while a second driver reproduces portions of the harmonics and overtones. The presence of these overtones and harmonics determine the quality of the musical sound, and are in a large part why a guitar sounds like a guitar and an oboe sounds like an oboe. Delve deeper and you'll find doing single-drivers right presents one of audio's most difficult design challenges.Įngineering a mechanical device that faithfully converts electronic signals into audible sound waves covering the FULL audio spectrum, without the aid of a crossover or multiple drivers sharing the work is a huge challenge.Įven a single musical note is comprised of a fundamental tone along with tones of higher pitch that are present in every musical sound. On the surface, single-driver loudspeakers can be as simple as their name: one audio driver in a cabinet. Even Omega's least expensive single driver loudspeaker delivers an ultra high level of sonic coherence and musical purity.
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