There's no performance benefit to having the passive crossover parts encased with the drivers, since component values can change with heat. But maybe that doesn't matter much since it's not a totally flat/accurate speaker anyway. Seems the only reason they did this is for more people to be able to easily implement an FR type guitar speaker into whatever backline or wedge they have.
The one thing that makes me curious about this is the lighter and straight cone, which are properties of a guitar speaker. Seems they made a coaxial guitar speaker! Haha, haven't seen one before.
Someone from Celestion said the crossover is at 3 kHz, so the 2k bump looks to be the effect of speaker breakup/resonance. Also, most likely going to get a little beamy at 3k is my guess. None of the Celestion coaxials have a flat HF due to HF reflections associated with this type of coaxial design, so the deviance at HF is just unavoidable stuff I think. Lastly, the frequency response on the website looks a bit smoothed, so it's probably even a bit less flat than what's shown
My personal preference is for a universally accurate monitor, not something guitar oriented. So while I can't see myself using it, would like to hear how it performs. Could be great for people who want a more guitar-cab sounding monitor.
The box will change the response so making it flat wouldn't really work in the end.
Interesting. It’s not flat based on the freq response they have on the site. Maybe once it’s enclosed in a box it will be flatter. I didn’t think of that. In the end it all depends on your ears anyways.
A cab will not turn a non-flat driver into a flat product. Case in point, look at all these HF drivers, all designed to achieve a flat frequency response:
https://celestion.com/category/39/compression_drivers_neo/
