No matter how well a transducer(speaker units) is designed or made, it simply cannot reproduce the entire audio spectrum all by itself. That's why high-quality speaker systems use multiple speakers (woofer, mid-range and tweeter) to spread out the work. 2, 3, 4... way systems distribute the work even more, allowing the individual transducers(speaker units) to reproduce the frequency range for which they were designed. It is the electonic-crossover’s function to divide these tasks between the various amplifiers and transducers(speaker units).