My lurking has caused me to confuse myself with mental exercise and I could use some help "setting me straight."
I like the idea of a slim MTM tower as the fronts for a home theater. If I wanted to round out the bass in a slim MTM tower (in addition to a sub), I was thinking about the use of a side-firing woofer kicking in at 100 hz or below. Poking around online I have found several existing manufacturer designs which utilize a MTM-sidefiring W but most of them appear to be 3-ways.
Since I am a noob, I have what is probably an obvious question:
If you are using a large, sidefiring woofer to augment bass, what are the advantages/disadvantages of utilizing a 3-way vice 2.5-way crossover? Is this a foolish question or it relevent and boil down to "only" crossover complexity? One half of my brain says the 2.5-way with a sidefiring woofer will probalby result in muddiness and all sorts of cancellations with the M's once it kicks in. However, the other half of my brain says the wave propogation/cancellation probably would not be any different with a convential 2.5-way design especially if there was a subwoofer relatively close by.
Any thoughts?
I like the idea of a slim MTM tower as the fronts for a home theater. If I wanted to round out the bass in a slim MTM tower (in addition to a sub), I was thinking about the use of a side-firing woofer kicking in at 100 hz or below. Poking around online I have found several existing manufacturer designs which utilize a MTM-sidefiring W but most of them appear to be 3-ways.
Since I am a noob, I have what is probably an obvious question:
If you are using a large, sidefiring woofer to augment bass, what are the advantages/disadvantages of utilizing a 3-way vice 2.5-way crossover? Is this a foolish question or it relevent and boil down to "only" crossover complexity? One half of my brain says the 2.5-way with a sidefiring woofer will probalby result in muddiness and all sorts of cancellations with the M's once it kicks in. However, the other half of my brain says the wave propogation/cancellation probably would not be any different with a convential 2.5-way design especially if there was a subwoofer relatively close by.
Any thoughts?
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