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Cost of Passive Crossover?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ampdog" data-source="post: 64835" data-attributes="member: 144"><p>Shonver,</p><p></p><p>I think direct comparison on cost alone ignores other advantages of active cross-overs. Obviously the passive cross-over would be cheaper. For for ease of adjusting to get the final result aimed for though, there can be little comparison. It is also far easier to measure behaviour of an active (electronic) cross-over. Not a driver expert myself, but I would imagine that driver behaviour can also be more predictable when fed from an aperiodic well-damped amplifier output, than from the L-C-Rs of a cross-over. As you know, alter something in a passive cross-over and it will likely affect everything to some degree, apart from the trouble of changing values.</p><p></p><p>The decision must be difficult for a non-electronically minded person. For those of us fortunate to be able to design and build our own amplifiers, I reckon it is easier - definitely active for me.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">(Yet I still use passives in my own loudspeaker systems ...)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ampdog, post: 64835, member: 144"] Shonver, I think direct comparison on cost alone ignores other advantages of active cross-overs. Obviously the passive cross-over would be cheaper. For for ease of adjusting to get the final result aimed for though, there can be little comparison. It is also far easier to measure behaviour of an active (electronic) cross-over. Not a driver expert myself, but I would imagine that driver behaviour can also be more predictable when fed from an aperiodic well-damped amplifier output, than from the L-C-Rs of a cross-over. As you know, alter something in a passive cross-over and it will likely affect everything to some degree, apart from the trouble of changing values. The decision must be difficult for a non-electronically minded person. For those of us fortunate to be able to design and build our own amplifiers, I reckon it is easier - definitely active for me. [SIZE=9px](Yet I still use passives in my own loudspeaker systems ...)[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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