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In Reply to: 3 Way speaker design vs 2 and 1/2 way posted by jensen B52 on March 16, 2007 at 14:03:58:
a 2 way we know where the signal goes.How is it done in a 3 way or 4 way? Wonder how the crossover works and all.I am not into speaker design,hence the question.Thanks.
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Hi Bill,The simplest setup for a 3-way is when it has 3 pairs of BPs. If you run it with one pair of wires, then you can take these wires to any one of the 3 pairs and run jumpers to the other pairs. (The combinations will probably all sound unique!)
If you bi-wire then you can choose which 2 (out of the 3) pairs you directly connect to, and you only need one pair of jumpers to the third pair of BPs.
If your 3-ways only have 2 pairs of BPs then, usually IMO, one pair of BPs is for the bass driver (ie. it leads to the bass lowpass filter) and the other connects to the mids and tweeters (ie. it leads to a mid-panel bandpass filter and a tweeter highpass filter).
Regards,
Thanks Andy.That is a very clear explanation.
I have not really looked at the rear of 3 way speakers.I really dont know which ones have two way connectors or three way.The option for different ways of hook up is good.Another item to play around with.Do the high end three ways have three sets of connectors.? Perhaps these speaker makers should give pictures from the rear also in their brochures and website.That way guys like me who cannot afford these behemoths can at least enjoy the rear view also.
Cheers
Bill
Whatever floats ya boat, Bill!! :-))I mean ... Playboy has "rear view" shots as well as "front view"! :-))
Regards,
Oh I hadnt thought of the triwired rear end.Thanks for reminding me of old times and magazines.Feeling young again.Cheers
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