here here celtic66. I’m with you. Fiesta 75 -you get it! (Audiogoners, follow these guys! )
Who honestly thinks a speaker level crossover is an improvement over a line level one?
How is seen as a good thing to add a bunch of big lossy parts that are not flat response into the audio path (large inductors and capacitors)?
How is reducing control of the drivers an improvement (no level calibration) ?
How is lack of phase control over drivers a positive?
This is a bit extreme but trying to make a point-could it be the amplifier business has invested a lot of time and money to convince all of us that an ever more expensive amplifier hooked to an ever more expensive speaker cable is important to speaker performance? While it might be true we hear a difference in different parts, this is exactly the point, these parts all have a sound. A speaker engineer might say that the entire passive crossover thing will never change because its a racket to sell you very expensive things you don’t need.
Brad
Who honestly thinks a speaker level crossover is an improvement over a line level one?
How is seen as a good thing to add a bunch of big lossy parts that are not flat response into the audio path (large inductors and capacitors)?
How is reducing control of the drivers an improvement (no level calibration) ?
How is lack of phase control over drivers a positive?
This is a bit extreme but trying to make a point-could it be the amplifier business has invested a lot of time and money to convince all of us that an ever more expensive amplifier hooked to an ever more expensive speaker cable is important to speaker performance? While it might be true we hear a difference in different parts, this is exactly the point, these parts all have a sound. A speaker engineer might say that the entire passive crossover thing will never change because its a racket to sell you very expensive things you don’t need.
Brad