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I'm new to high-efficiency speakers, and to learn about them I'm experimenting. I have a full-range (to 12K, anyway) 10" driver in an enclosure, and a standalone Fostex tweeter, and I'm wondering what is the right way to connect them to the amplifier (8W 300B SET).
The full-range driver is 12 ohms 98dB eff., the tweeter is 6 ohms 101 dB eff. The goal is to let the drivers do most of the rolling off and avoid cross-overs, but I need at least to use a series cap to shift up the fill-in curve for the tweeter. Right now I have 0.175 uF caps, nothing else.
Here's my question: which output tap of the amp should I use, 8 ohm or 16 ohm? Should I add any more components to my "network" to balance out these dissimilar drivers?
From listening to both taps, the 16-ohm tap has more "air", but sounds flat. The 8 ohm tap has that "in the room" presence and wide/deep soundstage, but the cymbals and drum slaps are muted.
I've tried different cap values on the tweeter, but have found that if I go much higher the tweeter begins to color the full-range driver too much.
Will I need to go to a higher-order crossover? Any suggestions for on-line resources where I can read about this?
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Topic - crossover question? - steverw 13:03:56 07/03/07 (3)
- RE: crossover question? - kurt s 21:46:18 07/04/07 (2)
- RE: crossover question? - steverw 18:10:33 07/05/07 (1)
- RE: crossover question? - kurt s 08:22:49 07/06/07 (0)
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