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RE: active crossover install

Posted by play-mate (A) on October 12, 2016 at 10:22:56

In Reply to: active crossover install posted by tberd on October 12, 2016 at 06:44:50:

Hey tberd

Constructing a crossover (active or passive) is no trivial pursuit.
It´s actually very challenging to get phase, impulse and amplitude of each of the drivers to work properly together.
-and in this regard, the Bryston crossover is simply to limited in it´s fixed 24dB/oct. setting.

There is good reason that the stock crossover is asymmetrical and that the mid-driver is inversed, and I must report that I had my best audible results in "close-to" factory settings.
Digital crossovers have often the (huge!) advantage that they can time-align the drivers (especially delaying the bass) and improve coherence.

I tried hundreds of settings on my former MG3.3R´s via digital crossover, and I can testify, I´ll never ever have it again without proper measurement assistance.

If you´re not able to exclude analog or digital streaming playback, there is only customised active crossovers to help.

However : the sheer dynamics, increased focus and breathtaking glory that (well setup) active Maggies can produce, is worth the extra hazzle in getting a well-configured X-over.

Kind regards L.
Hysolid // Mytek Brooklyn // Spectron Musician III // Analysis Audio Omega

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