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Not necessarily ...

Posted by andyr (M) on February 23, 2007 at 00:44:42

In Reply to: Number of crossovers in a speaker posted by amdan on February 22, 2007 at 21:09:46:

For instance, 3-way Magnepans (ie. 3 drivers) have an external passive XO that takes 2 pairs of wires (one for low, one for high) but the "high" input is then further split in an internal XO to ribbon and mid-range.

Typically, you'll have as many "crossovers" as there are drivers ... but, again, it depends what you mean by a "crossover"!! :-))

If you define a "crossover" as a pair of LP & HP slopes intersecting, then a 3-way speaker has 3 drivers and 2 crossovers.

However, if you define a "crossover" as either:
* lowpas
* highpass, or
* bandpass

... then a 3-way speaker has 3 crossovers.

Regards,

Andy

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