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In the Thread: Crossover Design

Post Subject: XoversPosted by Jorge on: 12/30/2011

Well a DEQX will cost you less than a set of good caps! you can buy one and play around with it for a couple of months and see for yourself, you will have fun anyway and thats what tis all about! You will need and extra preamp and 3 different amps at least.

I said Series Xover because that is what we were using at the time, we later run more tests with parallel xover with the same xover points and same parts and same system, same drivers same horns and the differences between series and parrallel were small. IMHO. It would all depend really how you want to run your amps, if your want just one amp for all your system and the impedance is droping too much for that amp, series will help, if you want to run maybe a couple of amps per side, parallel offers much more flexibility.

Designing a xover depends a lot on what drivers you are using, if it is inside a horn, the size and freq. cut off of the horn, what drivers are you crossing to, and ideally what amps will you be using, among a lot of other things, like your taste in music, how thick you like your sound or how detailed, you will find out on the way. No dont get me wrong or make it personal, but asking somebody to design a xover for your specific system would be like asking somebody to fuck your wife in order to make you a beautiful baby! And anyway he might just be in it for the fun and never reallly take your needs in account....
When you buy a whole system, most of the design work has gone onto deciding what drivers to use with what xover points and what parts go into the xover, etc. And finally it is designed to the designer taste, you might like what he likes or not, a close firend loves the sound of Avalon speakers but he goes for the original designer models only.... pick your poison!

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