Somewhat recently I read an interesting statement by a member of this board regarding active crossovers. The gist of it was that he prefers to use passive crossovers. He didn't offer any explanation.
I've been building active XOs for a few years now and I prefer them for mainly one reason: convenience. It's so much easier to tweak a design by changing a few small resistors and caps and messing around with opamps rather than ordering and waiting for large components to arrive.
However, I'm open to the possibility that there is a better way. What advantages do passive XOs offer? The only one that I can think of is noise. It takes careful board layout to have a quiet active XO.
I guess the other advantage is amplification cost, which is what prompted this examination. I'm getting ready to buy some new amps and 6 vs. 2 is a big difference 8O I'll probably get another 6 channel setup to mess around with, but for the main rig...hmmm.
(anybody have any good amp recommendations?)
I've been building active XOs for a few years now and I prefer them for mainly one reason: convenience. It's so much easier to tweak a design by changing a few small resistors and caps and messing around with opamps rather than ordering and waiting for large components to arrive.
However, I'm open to the possibility that there is a better way. What advantages do passive XOs offer? The only one that I can think of is noise. It takes careful board layout to have a quiet active XO.
I guess the other advantage is amplification cost, which is what prompted this examination. I'm getting ready to buy some new amps and 6 vs. 2 is a big difference 8O I'll probably get another 6 channel setup to mess around with, but for the main rig...hmmm.
(anybody have any good amp recommendations?)
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