active crossover recommendation

Greetings 

I have been very happy with my Bryston 10B sub Xover. Has worked flawlessly for years.The 10B can do 3-way.  I run mine in the stereo mode.

Maybe give Bryston a look.

Joe Nies

I just looked at Bryson’s website. They don’t seem to make Xover’s anymore?

maybe look at JLaudio?

There seems to be a lot of inexpensive ones out there.

Joe Nies

Try to find a used Pass XVR-1. See below:

Mike

First Watt or Marchand would be great. Depends how much you want to spend and if you want to take time to find one used. For me, even very low cost TDM or DBX sounded better than passive crossovers. Best wishes.

Bryston BAX 1 crossover

I have one pf these.

the selection of crossover points is up to you and new/different ones can be ordered and replaced.

The bryston wont work. None of the suggestions will work

Check out the DBX units. I realize they're a A/D then D/A, but with all those possible adjustments I wouldn't worry about the digital conversion. This will be your best solution. Don't fear the digital processing as it's more accurate than the analog versions, and a whole lot cheaper.

Hey OP!! Depends a lot on your needs.

Most passive crossovers include level matching, frequency and equalization.  If you need equalization a DSP based unit like miniDSP would be ideal.

While not listed on their home-page, the fellow at GR-Research can make a crossover for you I'm sure.

I call him "the fellow" because he never introduces himself.

gr-research.com/

The fellow is named Danny Richie, but I don't think he builds crossovers. He sells DIY speaker kits, which include the parts for making the passive crossover filters the loudspeaker uses.

Old saying #1: Money talks. 

Old saying #2: It doesn't hurt to ask.

Three-way is not easy to find. You might evaluate Marchand, as previously suggested.

This could be worth a look.

Albs UWE-10

Professional audio sources have them like Sweetwater https://www.sweetwater.com/c445--PA_Crossovers

You tube has videos on them too like one from maufacturer Behringer 

I don't know how they sound in an "audiophile" system but maybe worth a try.

I have been using the Marchand active crossover for a few years now and like it. I also have an Accuphase F-25 that I use. Lots of options out there.

@kenjit The OP asked for a recommendation for a analog active Xover 3-way. He didn’t ask for guidance on how to use one.
If the OP asked for help on setting one up, I’m sure he would have gotten a lot of responses.

Joe Nies

anything Roger Modjeski… aka Beveridge or Music Reference…

RIP Roger ;-)

Marchand offers several models and the quality is very good. He can also design custom filters like baffle step compensation and others upon request.

Hello sozocaps!  miniDSP!  I have them in three different systems. Excellent performance, low price. You do need a PC computer to program them. It's easy, software provided.  Happy listening.

I love active crossovers. All things being equal an active crossover beats a passive one every day. But, except possibly for sub woofers, generic crossovers have a significant weakness. Drivers, even good ones, are not flat. Much of this is handled by a crossover equalizing a driver as well as being a crossover. So crossovers must be designed to take care of these anomalies, meaning good crossovers are unique for their speaker taking into account the drivers and enclosures. Electronic crossovers usually assume perfect drivers. Digital crossovers can work but you have to design the way they process for each driver and high pass and low pass individually. So you need to know how a driver in its enclosure looks before designing the crossover, not so simple.

Just some things to consider.

@sozocaps , if you are going to do this do it right. Analog crossovers always have issues and are not very flexible. You can not adjust group delays. Digital active crossovers that operate in 24/192 or above are far superior. Check out DEQX's soon to be released Pre 8. It actually has a full 4 way crossover so you can add a sub if you like and it will test each driver and correct them all in time and phase. It will also establish a flat frequency response and from there you can adjust it for taste. This is the current state of the art and it is not insanely expensive. 

The DBX 234XS is the best overall choice I know of. At $319 it supports 2 X 3-Way channels if need be with easy setup. It uses the highly desirable Linkwitz-Riley 24 dB/Oct filters, which generally aren't used in passive designs because of parts count and cost issues. Its only drawback is the use of XLR balanced connectors, so you’d need 2-RCA to XLR Male for the input, and 4-XLR Female to RCA Male for the outputs. The DEQX Pre-8 looks awesome, but it definitely won’t be cheap.

@sozocaps 

I use a Marchand Electronics XM44-3 Crossover.  You chose the x-over points and the slopes.  Those are plug and play modules, so you can change them.

Mine is SS, but he also makes tube versions.  You'll find his site very easily.

Regards,

barts