Speaker Asylum

Posted by Presto (A) on December 11, 2024 at 11:24:59

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. A 2-way 90db SPL speaker with 90db SPL tweeter is a red flag - no baffle step compensation there, which can make a 2-way design sound very lean especially if it's out in the room where stand-mounts image best. (85/86db speakers are commonly the result of equalization and baffle step compensation...)

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

Edits: 12/11/24   12/11/24