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RE: Very effective demo

If you change from the factory OEM crossover slopes to a 8th order L-R, do you still try and keep the same acoustical crossover point? In the case of a Maggie 1.6 which I am most familiar with the acoustical crossover is about 600hz, with OEM crossover slopes of approximately:
LP LR 12db/oct @ 400hz
HP BW 6db/oct @ 1475hz

With the ability of a DSP based crossover of 8th order L-R that might become:
LP LR 48db/oct @500hz
HP LR 48db/oct @600hz

I can understand the advantage of using DSP based crossover hardware to allow the power amp to directly connect to the panels and to only be responsible for amplifying the pass bandwidth of power that the active crossover passes thru. But I am trying to better understand the benefits of changing from the lower order OEM to higher order DSP crossover slopes.


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