Hello, I’m looking at trying the Aciustic Reality series crossover. I’ve never laid one out though. Looks like just three components. Can anyone help me?
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I’ve never laid one out...
I have doubts since the impedance tends to be lower this way. The impedance at lower frequencies is fairly dependent on the resistor value. The main effect of changing the resistor is setting the tweeter level. So a sensitive tweeter is useful, and it should preferably be more sensitive than (the woofer - baffle step) to keep the system impedance above half the woofer impedance.an "amplifier's best friend"? Is it the lack of capacitors in the circuit?
Put some numbers into PCD or SCD by Bagby and see the behaviour with value changes.
The best advice I can give to you is to ditch that silly crossover, and design (with measurements!) a proper serial or parallel crossover, using any free crossover simulation software.Hello, I’m looking at trying the Aciustic Reality series crossover. I’ve never laid one out though. Looks like just three components. Can anyone help me?
In PCD you have to select Series Two-way and then load wiring configuration. Woofer select 2nd order series and tweeter 1st order series. See an example for PCD and SCD which has a zobel as well which is not part of the original AR design.I have and used the Bagby Crossover designer for quite some time. I assume I go by the 1st Order Series? If not, which one will get me the values of the AR for L1 and C1 or L2?