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- From: brian@crow.eel.ufl.edu (Brian Gentry)
- Subject: Re: capacitors
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.225341.13999@eng.ufl.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 22:53:41 GMT
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- In article <gilchr.721474539@ee.ualberta.ca>, gilchr@ee.ualberta.ca (Andrew Gilchrist) writes:
-
- [...]
- |> Passive crossovers aren't good for more than 6dB/octave. If you
- |> go past that, the rolloff at the -3dB point gets flatter and flatter.
-
- Do you mean that the response at the -3 dB point is not really -3 dB?
- Or do you mean that the instantaneous slope at the -3dB point gets
- closer to 0? Or is it something else?
-
- Look at the passive crossover circuits used in high-end dynamic loudspeaker
- systems. Most of them are 12 or 18 dB/oct in at least one section. These
- loudspeakers sound very good. Are you suggesting that the only loudspeakers
- that sound good are either actively crossed over or use 6dB/oct slopes?
-
- 6dB/oct slopes CAN produce a minimum phase output, but that is perhaps their
- only benifit. Higher slopes protect your drivers more and minimize the
- interaction of the drivers outside of the crossover region. Both of these
- are desirable characteristics. In addition, it is not possible to achieve
- some effects without using higher order slopes. For example, the D'Appolito
- configuration requires an ACOUSTICAL 18dB/oct slope on both the tweeter
- and midrange. You'd be hard pressed to find a tweeter and a mid that had
- 12 dB/oct slopes without crossovers. These slopes would have to be located
- exactly at the crossover frequency. This is the only way you could use
- first order crossovers and still get the excellent polar pattern offered
- by the D'Appolito configuration. Otherwise you have to use 12 or 18 dB/oct
- crossovers to satisfy the slope condition of the D'Appolito configuration.
-
- [...]
- |>
- |> Andrew
-
- Brian L. Gentry
- (brian@sioux.eel.ufl.edu)
-