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In Reply to: RE: Does sending some frequencies to an active sub increase the watts available to the remaining speakers? posted by djk on July 27, 2012 at 00:07:03:
Yes, taking the low frequency component out from the main-speakers amp would result in lower peak voltages (especially in the case with electronic music or music with lots of bass and regular bass beats). As a result, you now have a higher clipping threshold - aka "more headroom".
But this assumes that the mid and/or high frequency sections are (a) up to the task of the additional output and (b) the amp does not clip due to the power dissipated in the midband at the higher level setting.
So yes, the speaker system could have an over all higher level capacity, but how much that capacity increases would vary from system to system. It also depends on how bass intensive the listeners musical choices were to begin with. A guy who plays house and trance and hip hop will see a bigger difference than a guy who plays quartet, guitar or vocal music. The latter guy will not likely see a substantial increase in how loud he can play his system, as he didn't have a vast amount of super low frequency information there to begin with.
Cheers,
Presto
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Follow Ups
- Wouldn't that depend though? - Presto 13:17:03 07/27/12 (20)
- a big benefit of the high pass filter - hifitommy 11:28:23 07/28/12 (17)
- RE: a big benefit of the high pass filter - Presto 13:12:09 08/01/12 (16)
- my answer is more of an explanation - hifitommy 16:20:08 08/01/12 (15)
- RE: my answer is more of an explanation - Presto 09:09:28 08/02/12 (14)
- you're making this more complicated - hifitommy 16:05:01 08/02/12 (13)
- RE: you're making this more complicated - Presto 00:59:34 08/03/12 (0)
- Satellites? - Sumflow 20:59:10 08/02/12 (11)
- Satellites - hifitommy 22:14:15 08/02/12 (10)
- Satellite speakers - Sumflow 02:53:09 08/03/12 (0)
- RE: Satellites - Sumflow 00:24:12 08/03/12 (8)
- i reiterate---- - hifitommy 05:50:46 08/03/12 (7)
- Hidden source - Sumflow 07:24:10 08/03/12 (6)
- RE: Hidden source - abs1 14:28:15 08/03/12 (5)
- Satellite - Sumflow 14:16:09 08/16/12 (2)
- Joke - Sumflow 15:08:09 08/16/12 (0)
- RE: Satellite - abs1 15:04:14 08/16/12 (0)
- you guys are spot on about Summy - hifitommy 12:29:05 08/04/12 (0)
- But...Sumflow had several pictures he had to post! - willkayakforfood 14:51:42 08/03/12 (0)
- RE: Wouldn't that depend though? - Sumflow 13:42:15 07/27/12 (1)
- Okay now you have me thinking. - Presto 17:10:25 07/27/12 (0)
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