Marchand

Drew - thanks for your very informative responses. At the risk of hijacking Stanwal's thread, let me ask a related question: If one wants to remove the low bass from the main speakers (which in my case has the woofer crossed over at 80Hz) and send it instead to a pair of subwoofers, then would an active or passive Marchand unit be fine? My thinking is that all of the factors in you first post above wouldn't come into play with the main's woofer as it'll be removed and replaced with the subwoofers. . .

Dusty & Jburidan - are you both using the Marchand XM44 because you've bypassed the internal xover within your speakers, OR are you using both the Marchand external xover PLUS the speaker's internal xover??? Care to elaborate?

thanks.