Leaving aside the quality of the enclosure (for which there are some known parameters to look for, i.e. sturdiness, correct volume, etc...), how can you separate a great speaker driver from a mediocre one?
For electronic devices we have some well known measurements (SINAD, IMD, THD, noise, etc...): are some of these measurements applicable also to speaker drivers?
For example I guess that measures like THD and linearity would be very applicable, but usually they are not published by manufacturers, and so we are left with frequency response graphs as the one and only evaluation parameter.
Is there any way to correlate some other quality related measures to Thiele/Small parameters maybe? Some rules of thumb like "all other things being equal, drivers having low/high Qms/Qes/Qts/Vas/etc... should have lower/higher THD"?
For electronic devices we have some well known measurements (SINAD, IMD, THD, noise, etc...): are some of these measurements applicable also to speaker drivers?
For example I guess that measures like THD and linearity would be very applicable, but usually they are not published by manufacturers, and so we are left with frequency response graphs as the one and only evaluation parameter.
Is there any way to correlate some other quality related measures to Thiele/Small parameters maybe? Some rules of thumb like "all other things being equal, drivers having low/high Qms/Qes/Qts/Vas/etc... should have lower/higher THD"?