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BoomieMCT wrote:
 4. First off, what will your amp drive - 8 or 4 ohms? Since you will have a crossover the total impedence will not be all three elements in parallel. You will have roughly either 16 or 4 ohms for the woofer segment and 8 for the tweeter. You have to realize the impedence of a driver isn't flat over all frequencies and that adding a crossover has a huge affect as well. I highly recommend reading a bit more about crossover design and getting Passive Crossover Designer (free) from the FRD Consortium and playing with it for a while.
5. Pre-built crossovers rarely measure flat once hooked up. Some consideration for what drivers you are using and what enclosure they are in needs to be made - especially since you are looking to buy some decent (not cheap) drivers. |
thanks for the reply,
My amp(crown xti1000) will drive from 2ohm to 8ohm, 275rms @8ohm, 500rms @4ohm and 700rms @2ohm. I'm thinking of getting another amplifier so I could run an active setup so I wont bother with crossovers, hence a lot more simple/less headache... But then again a good crossover might save me some money ... But I have read some stuff about crossovers, and it really doesnt seem simple....
And pre-built crossover is out of the question now!!!
Anyone have some answers about the other questions?
thx again