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Woofer / Midrange Crossover [message #45630 is a reply to message #45629] |
Mon, 18 October 2004 22:44 |
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Wayne Parham
Messages: 18792 Registered: January 2001
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Illuminati (33rd Degree) |
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The low end cutoff of the midhorn acts as a high-pass filter, and the driver is able to handle a lot of low frequency power, so that's why there is no electrical high-pass. If you're really cranking it, it might reduce IM to add an electrical high-pass, but the midrange driver is able to handle 300 watts all the way down, so it's safe.As for the woofer, that 5mH (L3) coil chokes the highs pretty well. Without a conjugate Zobel, you're right that more high frequency energy is applied across the woofer than would be if it were purely resistive. So without a Zobel, it's a "pseudo-first-order" filter. But the coil is rather large, so attenuation is about -15dB at 1kHz, where it stays pretty level as frequency rises. The signal across the voice coil drops between 250Hz and 1kHz, but after that point there is no additional attenuation and it never gets beyond about -15dB. Still, that's enough and allows the circuit to remain simple. Down this low in frequency, wavelengths are long so integration is smooth too.
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Re: Woofer / Midrange Crossover [message #45635 is a reply to message #45630] |
Tue, 19 October 2004 08:27 |
GarMan
Messages: 960 Registered: May 2009
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Hi Wayne. I also forgot about the quarter wave thing where the corner stops acting like a horn but becomes a reflector instead. So I guess at around 150 to 200 Hz, there'll be an additional 3dB drop for the woofer as well. It makes sense to me know.
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