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Crossovers: Passive and Active

No single driver covers the whole range well, so the range gets divided — and how it is divided, where, and at what point in the chain turns out to matter as much as the drivers themselves.

Topic
Gear Basics
Level
Intermediate
Format
Lesson
Time
12 min

The previous lesson ended on the reason multi-way speakers exist: a large cone makes low frequencies well and high frequencies badly, a small one does the reverse, and no single driver does both. So the signal is split by frequency and each part is sent to a driver suited to it.

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