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In Reply to: RE: active crossover install posted by andyr on October 12, 2016 at 19:39:21
"I've been running my Maggies 3-way active for over 15 years and not a single listener has ever said they sound congested!"
I ran a Maggie Tympani using an Audio Research Corporation (active, tubed) EC-2A X-O and ARC tubed amplifiers over *thirty* years ago c/o any problem.
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So, Norman ... you would agree that the OP must've screwed up his active implementation, somehow?
I personally think he probably fed the LP output from the XO to his mids+tweeters and the HP output to his bass panels. ;-)) (Which would certainly sound very weird!)
Andy
I most definitely agree that the OP could have "screwed up". I indicated that in an earlier post when I wrote about the possibility of "human error" being involved or a fault in his Bryston X-O. Being considerate of his ability to correctly wire up his system, I wrote it likely that X-O was at fault.
Now that I think back to my earliest experience bi-amping a Tympani (using that ARC EC-2A X-O), it's more like 40 years since I did that. I recall concluding back then, 'what's the big fuss about bi-amping'? Nearly most of the time (or perhaps all of the time) I couldn't hear 'any day and night' difference between the ordinary vs bi-amped configuration. If a were put to a 'blind' test, considering the time required to re-wire the system any difference in its sound would have been gone.
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