Thanks guys for your informative replies.
Ivan, had a look at your great system, and you happen to use exatly the same Marchand XM126 active X-over I was thinking about, but it's not clear to me if you have removed the passive X-over inside your RBH speakers, have you?
Rodman, the reason why I said that removing the passive X-overs from my speakers is not practical, is that the manufacturer states that it implements a compensation network to correct phase and to linearize impedance, whatever that means, so I figured that wiring the drivers directly would mess up too many parameters, but I may be wrong of course. I'm not sure I understand how the slopes would become 48db/oct though, what I was told is that the passive X-over, presented with a signal already filtered, woudn't have to dissipate the exess energy, hence the advantage.
Ivan, had a look at your great system, and you happen to use exatly the same Marchand XM126 active X-over I was thinking about, but it's not clear to me if you have removed the passive X-over inside your RBH speakers, have you?
Rodman, the reason why I said that removing the passive X-overs from my speakers is not practical, is that the manufacturer states that it implements a compensation network to correct phase and to linearize impedance, whatever that means, so I figured that wiring the drivers directly would mess up too many parameters, but I may be wrong of course. I'm not sure I understand how the slopes would become 48db/oct though, what I was told is that the passive X-over, presented with a signal already filtered, woudn't have to dissipate the exess energy, hence the advantage.