No, if you are correct about the Meyers having less distortion - and we have no independent measurements to back that up - then the Meyers are more likely to make you deaf, since our ears tend to hear distortion as loudness. Speakers with very low levels of distortion are dangerous to your hearing because you will not realise how loudly you are listening.

Edit: your implicit assumption that speakers which are capable of higher SPLs are less distorted at low volumes than speakers that are only capable of lower maximum SPLs is frankly silly, as a brief acquaintance with some cheap PA speakers should make clear.

ATC speakers do have directivity control in the form of waveguides as well of course in the fact that they make their own mid and bass drivers which are specifically engineered for the applications. And the phase response is actually very impressive, as you might see if you bothered to download that article I referred to several pages back.

I don't know where you are getting your independent stats on the distortion and "compression" (!) levels so that you can make your statements of "fact"...

They sound like opinions to me. But as I said this thread is going nowhere. Even though we can be proud that it is going nowhere in quite a tightly focused manner!

One last question before I depart, have you ever heard big active ATCs and compared them to the other speakers you mention?

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