It's simple. Forget guidelines except if you are putting signal thru that would be unacceptable to the driver. The drivers speciffy in hz or bcps what their range is. As long as you keep the signal properly attenuated into the driver just pick the sound you like.
Don't worry about arbitrary standards. If like a bassy sound let it go louder. If you like treble let the tweeter get loud. Why doyou think you hear very different sounds from the different speakers you here the same music on.
That said if you can measure Db and cps get reference recording. I have a few which specify what the volume should be in Db a specific frequency. Knowing the sensitivity of the your driver and using a volt meter to measure how many watts you are delivering to the terminals of the driver. This way you can adjust the attenuation of your crossover in -db or degree of your of slope.
The maximum energy capacity for a driver is always given in terms of watts.
The best wine I always say is the wine you like best. That is true for music too.
If you color the tone or create a sound that weren't exactly what the engineers wanted who cares ?As long as you truly like it that way. BTW, the sound of the recording is engineered or made up, in most cases,. Given the limitations of the reproduction equimenmt they assume will be used--- like a car radio. Once a performance in a studio is made they have to mix it i.e. adjust the volumes of the different elements.
Don't worry about arbitrary standards. If like a bassy sound let it go louder. If you like treble let the tweeter get loud. Why doyou think you hear very different sounds from the different speakers you here the same music on.
That said if you can measure Db and cps get reference recording. I have a few which specify what the volume should be in Db a specific frequency. Knowing the sensitivity of the your driver and using a volt meter to measure how many watts you are delivering to the terminals of the driver. This way you can adjust the attenuation of your crossover in -db or degree of your of slope.
The maximum energy capacity for a driver is always given in terms of watts.
The best wine I always say is the wine you like best. That is true for music too.
If you color the tone or create a sound that weren't exactly what the engineers wanted who cares ?As long as you truly like it that way. BTW, the sound of the recording is engineered or made up, in most cases,. Given the limitations of the reproduction equimenmt they assume will be used--- like a car radio. Once a performance in a studio is made they have to mix it i.e. adjust the volumes of the different elements.