Dialling in active crossovers

[Ron Resnick]

Naw, just like being an audiophile.
RULE OF THE FIRST Keep "off' button in reach and one eye on the meter.

And from there: Push buttons, turn dials till you get what you want.

Stock pile lots of wire and solder and sometimes put your faith in things nobody understands.

Cyclotronguy

What happened to the rule:

When all else fails smack side of device with open palm.

 

[bonzo75]

Rich and Kong already use a Pass crossover. The rest is knowing what amps you have and where you want to dial in the mids, bass, etc

 

[Cyclotronguy]

Ron

The hardware is bigger than the operator and fully capable of retaliation.... no whacking.

Case in point... the navy lads built us a nice resonator tank... the designer apparently knew how to build submarines. So we get this cylindrical pressure vessel thing 20 feet long, 8 feet in diameter and 3" inches thick with an impressive ribbed exo-skeleton... just to make sure. It bolted to the other hardware with a bunch of 1-1/4" cap screws at to the floor with cast in place seismic anchors.

Well one day we lost the incoming AC mains and with it power to the water cooled 120,000lb magnet. When the magnetic field collapsed it broke all the bolts and casually pushed our ersatz submarine hull back about 2 meters. And it all happened so quickly that on one was actually sure they heard the event.

And other than needing some new bolts, no indication of anything unusual.

 

[Robh3606]

Hello Ron

The best sound comes from having it set up properly -- which might not come from me setting it up myself.

Well that's where the fun comes in trying to get it right. You won't your first time but getting it there is a great learning experience. All you have to do is have a default to get you back to the original set-up and some kind of reference to compare it to.

Rob

 

[bonzo75]

Here's an interesting biamping post http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...Steve-Williams&p=412914&viewfull=1#post412914

 

[trueblue]

What happened to the rule:

When all else fails smack side of device with open palm.

if that fails, read the manual