Crossover frequency curves - what should I be looking for?


I see impressive looking graphs of crossover frequency curves are sloping either at the beginning or the end.

To me they reflect a graph of varying volume across the frequency spectrum. For bass drivers they slope down toward the right side and then for upper range drivers they slope upward. And then there's a point were they merge together which I guess represents the crossover point.

OK this is all fancy and nice, but what am I to make of this and is this of any value to anyone? What should I be looking for?

jumia

Showing 1 response by paradisecom

Generally, you would want the summed responses of all the drivers to be equal across the entire spectrum.  This can change, sometimes dramatically, when listening off-axis where phase-issues between the drivers at those crossover frequencies reveal themselves.  Some manufacturers are better than others addressing those concerns with better driver selection, physical design layout of the speaker, better crossover parts, and more carefully designed crossover, etc.

 

Here's an extreme example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIKOhMyOaPU&ab_channel=GR-Research

Also, speaker price has no necessarily guaranteed correlation on the above.