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| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @texbychoice wrote: Wins in what specific technical and measurable ways? Trade offs must be honestly identified and considered. That is the only damn fact that matters. Now suddenly measurements are a convenient step (i.e.: "Measurements do ... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @texbychoice wrote: Passive crossover or all active can result in a system that measures well. Measurements do not tell the entire story. For those of us that have over the years tried many of the latest bright shiny audio gizmos or idea we kn... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @texbychoice wrote: Russbutton describes an active crossover providing signal to an amplifier for each driver. For a three driver speaker, three separate amps required. Six amps total for a typical 2 channel system. That is increased complica... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @texbychoice wrote: @russbutton You provide an interesting alternative path that can work if one likes massive over-complication that introduces numerous paths to problems. Explain "massive over-complication." You're replacing a passive cros... | |
| Speakers for 2nd System! @lalitk -- I know the Leben quite well (also the smaller sibling, the CS300), and it’s a fine amp. I might try and look for a used pair of WLM Diva’s (the floor standing model as an outset), which are very good speakers built around a 10" coaxial... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @toddalin wrote: I don’t think this means what you think it means. I think what is referred to is the power linearity over the frequency response and they show plots of the response for the three power levels and look at the response to see ... | |
| What is the most overlooked consideration? @devinplombier wrote: I’m actually of two minds. I believe the "external" route is actually easier to implement, gives better flexibility, and is likely to yield better sound quality. Good to know some people feel this way about it. On the ... | |
| What is the most overlooked consideration? @devinplombier wrote: I do agree with this approach. In addition to the benefits you cited, you can match amplification with frequency range; for instance, those old Bryston monoblocks you have laying around will do great on bass duty, leaving y... | |
| What is the most overlooked consideration? One of the most overlooked considerations, from my chair, is the amp to driver interfacing, starting with getting rid of the passive crossover between the amp and speaker/its drivers. That naturally necessitates doing the crossover duties prior to... | |
| Bass management--high/low pass filtering @cooper52 -- I use subs in my setup that "meet up" with high-passed main speakers, but they’re all outboard actively configured via the same DSP/digital crossover, mains + subs, and thus high-passing the mains isn’t an extra measure per se. Rathe... | |
| How good is the crossover in your loudspeakers? @gtscott wrote: I had a system where I eliminated the passive crossovers and replaced them with a digital crossover, The biggest improvement I have heard over my 30 years doing this. Passive crossovers are using energy from the signal to create ... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @larryi wrote: A local builder uses quite sizeable horns and compression drivers that can go extremely low. I recently heard a system where the crossover from compression midrange to woofers was set at 180 hz with a very shallow 6 db/octave slo... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @devinplombier wrote: I strongly suspect that I couldn’t live happily with speakers that are down 6 dB at 55 Hz (JBL’s spec), but I respect those who see beyond that. An additional caveat is that I have not auditioned the K2, and I am open to th... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @ozzy62 wrote. Ok folks, you heard this genius. Sell your horns. I was about to reply to poster @secretguy on his horn statement, in all earnesty, but yours is better, and not least funnier :) @deep_333 wrote: I have heard the Meyer bluehor... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @saummisra -- Look for a pair of used Meyer Sound X-10’s. They’re active speakers and are about the best that can be had in the 15" woofer/midrange + horn/waveguide class of speakers out there. That’s including the JBL M2, K2 S9900, Everest’s etc... |