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RE: The Sound Lab ESL are 'full range' yet they use a crossover.

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In Reply to: RE: The Sound Lab ESL are 'full range' yet they use a crossover. posted by Ralph on December 11, 2024 at 09:21:11

Wow, I'd love to hear those!

Crossovers are not "all things evil" per se. Large coils on low-pass filters have insertion loss and cost a lot - lots of copper in the windings. Some folks prefer to minimize caps in the tweeter signal path (shunt caps a lesser evil than series ones, according to most).

Impedance bump and rise compensation and equalization for flatter response are usually good things.

Some might abhor the use of transformers, but, they'd then need to abhor the output stage of a single ended tube amp!

In any case, I will definitely be looking into those specific speakers if only to better understand how they work. :-)

Cheers,
Presto

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