2. amps-preamps
  3. 190006-150037

Crossovers? How do you evaluate if crossover is any good?

I hear Crossover designs are very important to your system. You have several drivers in a speaker and I've seen the curve designs where they slope up and down and when overlaid on top of the curve of another frequency ranged driver they overlap a little bit as slopes go up and down.

So what does all this mean and aren't speakers generally designed similar to other speakers in this area. Is it all about designing the curve? Exactly what is it that makes a crossover better than another crossover?

 

emergingsoul

Showing 1 response by emergingsoul

emergingsoul OP
1,258 posts
 

@knotscott

Awesome comment above especially middle paragraph where you talk about parts.

You have a great space and all the details related to those components you have. So much knowledge about all that goes on. Especially biamp mixture of tubes and solid state. I became a member of the exclusive fraternity and while I wanted to do it with my existing solid state mono amplifiers by adding a couple tube amplifiers it was a bit of a challenge for me. So I purchased a pair of McIntosh 901s which seem to do what I was looking for while sparing me of all the aggravation of doing it myself but you seem to have handled things well. I added 4 telefunken 12ax7 nos tubes at the top of the food chain and now debating whether I want to replace  eight 12at7 jj tubes with Telefunken and leave the remaining 16 kt88 jj Power tubes alone until they die.  Lots of tubes but some comfort that the tele nos Will live a very very long life. Interested in any thoughts you might have about whether the 12at7 tubes are worth changing out.

Thanks

 

More to discover