Re: active or passive [message #37219 is a reply to message #37208] |
Mon, 08 July 2002 20:49 |
Chris R
Messages: 133 Registered: May 2009
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I've been working on an active crossover for months and I finally finished it over the weekend. Right now, I'm driving one of the two JBL 3677s's I got. I kludged a Klipsch plate amp into playing bi-amp duty just to try everything out. While certainly not ideal, its actually turned out very well. I love the active crossover compared to the passing one I was using. What's really cool is that I included what amounts to a balance knob for left and right that pans between the low and high output. This allows for easy, instant efficiency balance between the horn and bass drivers. It really does need the HF compensation like Wayne's passive crossovers includes. Overall, as a proof of concept, its a success. For the "real thing", I need to fab a circuit board and find a nicer chassis, etc. The plate amp is OK, but a true hi-fi amp set would be nicer. Hell, I have all this as my garage system because its too big and ugly to fit in the house, but that's another story.
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