The Outer dia. is the same but "atmospheric" one has a narrower inner d and the overall length is also longer while the reference and transparency pairs they have equal inner d and the transpareny pair having a shorter length. No damping material whatsoever.
You may want to check this out, these have different inner d and damping material according to the target response and they work unlike the Kirin's.
By adding extra drivers you will also be introducing new sources of distortion and nonlinearity. As revealed not too long ago (well, by myself), you can never put a real passive crossover in an IEM so you can only inherit the distrotion of the bass or full frequency driver (which is often a DD). You actually likely risk getting a higher incoherency by adding more drivers not to mention the 90 degree rotation in phase of the signal. This is exactly why you often hear people calling a multi driver set "incoherent" but you don't hear the same for single DD sets.
Just for pure common sense discussion as I know nothing about those technical issues...for multi-driver unit, if there are overlapping of frequency ranges among units, then they should cover each other without sudden "disappear" in certain range...provided that no issue of incorrect phase...
I agree that single full range DD should perform more linear just around the mid, but problem might occur with rapid high energy demand from both extreme ends of the high and low...correct me if I'm long
I think the reasons to add drivers on top of a full frequency driver is to add note weight and resolution to the overall sound. and this addition is often very subtle. The SPL doesn't really lie, if the driver responses to the signal it is reflected on the graph so it is non realistic to imagine a sudden "disappearing" of certain frequencies in the full spectrum. I think you can actually measure the frequency resolution but I have never seen anyone doing that.
I have never read any articles about simutaneous extreme frequency response but I think that is actually quite rare. A burst or a continuous signal they are the same and I bet the drivers still respond the same way and there are many more factors that affect the quality of the sound such as intermodulation distortion (such as due to what you called "overlapping") created by more than one driver. Also these tests are done with a white noise signal so maybe the THD measured is faithful enough.