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- From: gilchr@ee.ualberta.ca (Andrew Gilchrist)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
- Subject: Re: Crossover Questions
- Message-ID: <gilchr.721976134@ee.ualberta.ca>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 04:55:34 GMT
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- chiu@gpb-mac.sps.mot.com (Norman Chiu) writes:
-
- >The way I see it is that the tweeter and the woofer should work together
- >to cover the band of audio frequencies that they are designed to cover.
- >In this case, the woofer covers from 50 to 3k Hz, and the tweeter covers
- >from 3k to 22K Hz. So based on these numbers along, the optimal
- >crossover point should be 3k Hz. If X-point is higher than 3k Hz,
- >then the woofer is asked to produce sounds that is out of its spec.
- >And of course, by the same token, if X-point is lower than 3k Hz,
- >the tweeter has to produce sounds that is out of its spec.
-
- Sorry. I thought we were talking about a 3-way system.
- In any case, it's best if the driver ranges overlap. This is tough to
- do in a 2-way system.
-
-
- >When I said "die down", I meant the high frequency content's "roll-off"
- >should be more gentle. Anyway, as I said in my previous post, I
- >don't any scientific proofs to this statement. I got my infomation
- >from Car Stereo Review magazine, where some of the stereo shop owners
- >recommend a 12dB slope on the woofer-tweeter crossover, and a 18dB
- >slope on the subwoofer-woofer crossover.
-
- >If you have any theory to approve/disapprove this, please share with
- >us. I can always learn more new things.
-
- Well, having gotten some sleep, I have figured out what I was trying to say
- in another post (regarding crossovers) and am going to have to
- post a partial retraction. Since it is related, I hope you read it.
-
- As for high requency roll-off being more gentle, I assume you are
- implying that the system response isn't flat, and you want to avoid
- a sharp drop in treble response. Do I have this right? In this case, I
- would agree, but I thought the point was to make a system with flat
- response, so that the roll-off of one driver shouldn't make a big
- difference.
-
- Perhaps the idea is to reduce the rate of phase error change?
- Since the woofer and tweeter will have markedly different phase
- response at the crossover point, this is intended to smooth the mixing?
-
- Andrew (no need to get nasty)
-