Coaxial Atomic FR

Should Atomic switch to coaxial speakers?

  • Yes, duh.

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Are you playing drums through your Atomics?? :lol:

I've only heard 2 or 3 FRFR speakers (so no experience) but if one thing really stands out for me, it's how nice the crossover/balance is in the Atomic. In other speakers you can obviously see and hear the tweeter hissing and being in "another location". I don't have this with the Atomics :cool:

So I would think there are other priorities for the Atomics, but I can't be against anything that's better either :)
 
vAmpli said:
Are you playing drums through your Atomics??

Actually, yes :)

I plan on using the Atomics as my mixing monitors, since I can't afford dedicated monitors

And, I don't yet have the Atomics, although I'm sure they sound really great as they are. But if they were to release a new product—perhaps with coaxial speakers—in ~6 months, I'd be willing to wait. This is the main feature for me that separates the FBT Verves and the Atomics
 
It's not like the Atomic is farting out all the time, but if I would need something that could easily take the beating and these bass freqs of a kick drum (what are these freqs anyway?) *and* have a good guitar solution, I'd consider one of the other speakers, although I have no idea how hard you'll drive them.

As far as I read and experience, the bass response could be a lot better in the Atomic and the volume as well [as a monitor, I guess it will do though :) ].
It's no problem for a living room player like me, but even if I would put the bass up for some fun, I quickly decide against it, because it's sounds like it either can't ideally take it soundwise and/or is falling apart from the vibrations :mrgreen:

OTOH, that's just a "nobody's" opinion going on instinct. I'm far from an EQing specialist that might solve a big part of that.
 
I use a lot of bass, and so far everyone has said the Atomics sound good with the Axe-Fx... maybe they aren't playing metal, though
 
Component speakers are always better quality in my experience. There are some nice coaxial speakers, but 99.9% of the time coaxial are used for two reasons:

1. cost
2. when space is an issue

If you want cheap speakers that's fine, but in a cabinet you are not going to have the same space issues as you would say inside of a car.

As for the phase relationship anything beyond a few feet is going to be noticeable. I believe that the article you were reading is focusing on more of a nearfield effect.

And don't forget that a coaxial speaker will have one speaker physically in front of another one....I don't want anything in front of my speakers.
 
FBT Verve 12m/a are coaxial :p and those would be my first choice, but I don't have access to them
 
One instance doesn't make it the rule it makes it the exception.

And that doesn't mean that it's 'better' in any particular case, it just means that FBT decided to use it in this particular product. At the price they are asking I have no doubt that the specialized coaxial driver makes up a huge part of the cost and it doesn't mean that it wouldn't sound better if they used seperate drivers. It just means that they chose not to in this case for whatever reason.

If coaxial drivers were in fact better across the board as your post is implying than there would be hundreds of monitor manufacturers out there pumping them out. You don't see that for a reason.

Coaxial speakers are not better in all cases. Not even in most cases.
 
The sound coming from one location is a big plus in my books. And if good coaxial components are used, it should sound just as good... only more natural feeling.
 
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