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RE: A week if you're lucky

Posted by hahax@verizon.net (A) on June 28, 2014 at 21:38:12

In Reply to: A week if you're lucky posted by BPoletti on June 28, 2014 at 20:51:12:

In some ways a passive crossover properly designed using a good computer program like LEAP is easier to set up because LEAP can compensate for all the areas in even good drivers that aren't flat(just look at SEAS drivers on their web site and SEAS makes excellent drivers). I've seen a friend design a passive crossover in half a day and get a really good design from the computer. All that was needed was to play a little with subtle changes to get the speaker to his taste(since no speaker is uncolored). But if he had wanted to he could have used the speaker with fine tuning.

You can do the same thing with active crossovers but most people think you can just use a generic active crossover and play with the crossover points and slopes and it's good. The corrections needed just aren't that simple. I suspect if you did do the same kind of equalization with an active system it would be better than the passive one. But that's only if you do the equalization.

And the equalization is not just for flat response. If you know what to do it also affects transparency and dynamics, etc.

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