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- From: brian@navaho.eel.ufl.edu (Brian Gentry)
- Subject: Re: Selecting Crossover Points
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.172042.16489@eng.ufl.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:20:42 GMT
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- In article <8204@dove.nist.gov>, keys@starchild.ncsl.nist.gov (Lawrence B. Keys) writes:
-
- |> My question is, how do i select crossover points? My crossover
- |> uses 3 plug-in chips to set the crossover points. Currently it has
- |> two 125 Hz and one 90 Hz chip. I am satisfied with the x-over point
- |> for the sub, but i feel that some midbass is missing from my system.
-
- Is the crossover a model with 4 highpass channels and 2 sub channels?
- If so, I guess that your highpass points are set to 125 Hz and your low pass
- points are at 90 Hz. You may want to try lowering the highpass points to
- 90 Hz as well, but I've found that it's hard to get good midbass in a
- car without using an enclosure. You may want to try damping the area
- behind the woofers in the doors in order to minimize the cancelations.
-
- |> These chips cost $12.00 each, not a lot of money, but i don't want
- |> to but any more than i have to in order to get the right sound.
-
- If these plug in modules are anything like the ones that Audio Control
- uses, then you can make them yourself. Again, IF they're the same (and
- they probably are) they are just a few resisitors (all the same value).
- You could call Phoenix Gold and find out (it may even be in the manual--
- it's in Audio Control's manual).
-
- |> Do i need to have my system sonically evaluated to determine which
- |> chip to buy? Without the knob selectable x-over points it seems
- |> like it will be a trial and error type of selection.
-
- I think your ears will tell you which point is right. Try it without
- the highpass crossover at all and see if you have better mid-bass. If it's
- only a little better, then you're probably getting some cancelation in the
- doors.
-
- |> BTW, if it is important my xover is running in 2 channel mode. It is
- |> an 18db/octave unit. It has switches to set the sub in either stereo or
- |> mono, it has phase switches for the sub as well as a remote level control
- |> for the sub.
-
- It's sort of strange that an 18 dB/oct crossover would have a phase switch
- for the sub. This is normaly done on 12 dB/oct xovers to compensate for
- the 180 deg. phase difference between the high pass and low pass channels.
- Check to make sure that this is actually an 18 dB/oct xover. If it does
- turn out to be 12 dB/oct, try reversing the phase.
-
- Brian L. Gentry
- (brian@sioux.eel.ufl.edu)
-