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1st order crossover?

The speakers I have, have a 2 inch dome driver that has crover points at 1,000 and 2,000. In the owners material and set up a lot of attention is given to phase and time. Each driver is in it's own cabinent and a measuring device is used to align each cabinent after measuring the seating position from top of sub and floor to ear distance. Can the crossover points for that 2 inch dome be 1st order "6db per octave" when it is not even covering an octave. It has been said that drivers for 1st order crossovers have to cover such a wide frequency range. That is not the case here. Hope to learn a few more things on 1st order crossovers. Thanks
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suits_me
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As others have said the first order aspect of the crossovers has nothing intrinsically to do with the narrow range of the one driver, except that the designer evidently like first order crossovers and thought this implementation worked best with his drivers.

It would be just as unusual an implementation for Joseph Audio, with their steep slopes, to have a single driver with crossovers at 1k and 2k.
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