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Originally Posted by Bob Ross
The specification you are looking for is Sensitivity
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Oh I knew the exact technical term, but was just adding some clarity to a reply from this comment:
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Originally Posted by pjm
I don’t know how much power your receivers have, but take a look at the efficiency specs on these speakers. Elac makes very nice speakers, but they tend to be power hungry compared to something like the JBLs you mentioned, which are extremely efficient.
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In which case efficiency and sensitivity are understood as referencing the same thing - the amount of acoustic energy produced per amplifier wattage provided
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Originally Posted by Bob Ross
At your budget, not necessarily. The hardest part of a speaker design to get right is the crossover network, the components which divide the frequency spectrum into 2 or 3 (or 4, or...) subdivisions and assigns them to the respective drivers. A speaker with a midrange driver has, by definition, two crossovers (one between the woofer and midrange drivers, another between the midrange and tweeter drivers) and since both of those crossover frequencies are right in the middle of the range of human hearing, any aberrations or shortcomings will be more conspicuous.
In short, all things being equal it's easier to build a good-sounding 2-way crossover than a good-sounding 3-way crossover, especially if one of those Things Being Equal is the pricepoint.
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Yes cost being the baseline it's easier to design something decent with less parts than more parts, but it's still up for debate whether crossovers have a bigger effect on overall sound quality than driver matching and enclosure design. Also maybe the OP relishes midrange over the highs and lows, so a three-way will provide a better overall experience than a similarly-priced two-way.
2-5khz is the most sensitive human hearing range on average, but if you have a single midrange driver in a 3-way setup that's designed for that range it should provide better overall perceived quality than having to combine the compromised range limits of two drivers.
To the OP - some of the other suggestions of "try before you buy" are very good - might be a better option to see if you can demo some speakers, and then get suggestions for comparables to the ones you like best.