All speakers have a little EQ built in
It may come as a shock to audio purists but part of the work of a crossover is level matching as well as tonal adjustments of individual drivers. Ahem. That's what we call equalization.
This is true whether the speaker uses active or passive crossover, and may be in place just to adjust phase matching in the crossover range.
Also, curiously, while companies may brag about the number of parts in their crossovers, more parts does not indicate more quality. It may just indicate more equalization had to be done to the drivers to get them to match.
@erik_squires I'm not saying you are misusing the term. I'm saying the term when it was coined last century was and is a bit of a misnomer. My speaker manufacturer brags of a flat frequency response. Indeed. some very expensive speaker manufacturers tune their speakers to be bright because the target market who can afford expensive speakers tends to be older and have frequency loss in the higher frequencies. I won't derail the thread by explaining why I, at 67, can still appreciate the flat response instead of the boosted treble. I hope I'm positively contributing to your interesting thread. Jerry |
