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If ultimate midrange magic is your goal, consider three-way speakers with a dedicated midrange driver (either a dome or a cone). These keep the midrange pure -- they keep crossover out of the midrange and prevent lows or highs from causing midrange distortion, unlike single-driver systems -- and they can offer the dynamics and bass that add an important dimension of fun to music.
Yeah, that’s all great and wonderful on paper, but you will spend big bucks for 3 way speakers that have even decent imaging properties, yet that of the best single driver/ crossover less designs.
We can debate back, and forth forever about specific merits of different designs, but the moral of the story folks is that every speaker design has flaws, and it’s your job to decide what flaws you can live with. Do your research on the Internet, go ahead, and check out all the specifications, but at the end of the day please remember that it is your ears that count the most.