Ok, so the title sounds a little risque....
Anyways, I was sitting and thinking the other day about my current project (the Aria 7 TLR kit), and it's possibilities for moving to a 3-way setup. Of course that's well beyond my means of experience to make that work out well, and usually when I see somebody talking about doing a 3-way speaker that it could be easier to go active with the woofer. But that of course adds expense to the whole setup if you need more amplifiers to do it, plus the actual x-over to do it. Although to do it passive I'd either have to pad down the tweeter and 7" drivers (pretty much not a great idea), or I'd have to get multiple woofers to get up to that 94-95db sensitivity (which would basically negate the cost of getting an active x-over).
So I'm now in a situation where I have an extra 2-channels of amplification (was thinking of going to an EX/ES setup, but room doesn't really allow it). And I was just going through the Marchland site and checking out the costs of the active x-overs (not to bad).
So how hard is it to do a 3-way if you are going to go active on the woofer? Is it as simple as hooking it all up and then matching up the volume levels? Would a generic active x-over like the Marchland units (XM9 I was looking at) with 24db/octave slopes work well?
Andrew
Anyways, I was sitting and thinking the other day about my current project (the Aria 7 TLR kit), and it's possibilities for moving to a 3-way setup. Of course that's well beyond my means of experience to make that work out well, and usually when I see somebody talking about doing a 3-way speaker that it could be easier to go active with the woofer. But that of course adds expense to the whole setup if you need more amplifiers to do it, plus the actual x-over to do it. Although to do it passive I'd either have to pad down the tweeter and 7" drivers (pretty much not a great idea), or I'd have to get multiple woofers to get up to that 94-95db sensitivity (which would basically negate the cost of getting an active x-over).
So I'm now in a situation where I have an extra 2-channels of amplification (was thinking of going to an EX/ES setup, but room doesn't really allow it). And I was just going through the Marchland site and checking out the costs of the active x-overs (not to bad).
So how hard is it to do a 3-way if you are going to go active on the woofer? Is it as simple as hooking it all up and then matching up the volume levels? Would a generic active x-over like the Marchland units (XM9 I was looking at) with 24db/octave slopes work well?
Andrew
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