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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!titan!titan!tpearson
- From: tpearson@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Trevor Pearson)
- Subject: Re: Crossover question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.052901.10665@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1992Dec15.140727.16860@news.duc.auburn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:29:01 GMT
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- kevins@eng.auburn.edu (Kevin Sullivan) writes:
- > Dig if you will the picture:
- >
- > A 4 ohm tweeter with a 3.3 microfarad cap on the + terminal,
- > as a first order (6 dB/octave) high pass filter, -3dB cutoff
- > around 12kHz, right?
- >
- > So I add this to my rear speakers of my van, but the tweeters
- > are way too loud, relative to the woofer (yes I have a big hole
- > in the midrange back there, the front speakers fill it in).
- > So I put two 10 ohm 10 watt resistors in series with the cap, so
- > I have:
- >
- > amp + --------/\/\/\--------||--------- tweeter +
- > 20 ohm 3.3MFD
- > (4 ohm)
- > amp - --------------------------------- tweeter -
- >
- > Does this not change my crossover frequency to 2000 Hz? If so
- > the system should sound terrible, but it sounds great (except
- > for the lack of mids when running only the rear speakers). What's
- > going on here?
- >
- > One more thing that might help or hinder analysis: this is the
- > Chrysler/Infinity sound system, where low power speaker level
- > signals are sent to the four corners of the vehicle. This
- > signal goes directly to the tweeter of a coaxial speaker and
- > (in parallel) also to the input of a power amp for the woofer.
- > There's a small amp on the back of each speaker. Don't know
- > the amp's input impedance but I'd guess pretty high relative
- > to the tweeter.
- >
- > Please help me figure this out. It sounds great, I just don't
- > want to blow the tweeters.
- >
- No need to worry. The -3dB point for the resistor will be 3KHz but the
- speaker will still be -15dB @ 12Khz. I don't think your overall response
- will be too flat, but if you are happy, why worry?
-
-