out of order!

[zallen25]

Can somone explain the meaning of ORDER when it comes to crossovers


first order? second order? I never really did care till now haha

[Track Rat]

You should ask someone at Guitar Center. I've always found their sales people very helpful and knowledgable. They just seem to know everything.

[mjbee]

If I've understood this right ...

It's to do with the number of capacitors/inductors used to make the crossover.

One capacitor/inductor stage makes a simple 2-way splitter to send your signals between the tweeter and woofer. The split point isn't a clean break, it's a gentle slope down and up, and goes at 6db per octave. That is, halves the output for every doubling in frequency beyond the crossover point, on the woofer side.

Using more stages of filter gives steeper changeover points, in steps of 12db (2nd order), 18db (3rd order), 24db (4th order).

Steeper means cleaner separation between what's going to the main driver, and what's going to the tweeter.

"4th Order Linkwitz Riley" tells you how many stages, and the type of filter (or e.g. Butterworth)

Anyone want to correct or expand on that?

[zallen25]

thanks mjbee..........actually I remember somone telling me this before now. But its always nice to refresh the memory now and then.

Track Rat..............grow the F up, at least i have the balls to ask for help since im not perfect! You sound like a god damn whinning kid with your sarcastic remarks!

out!

[maestro_dmc]

Track Rat..............grow the F up, at least i have the balls to ask for help since im not perfect! You sound like a god damn whinning kid with your sarcastic remarks!

Ever heard of Over-Reactors Anonymous? You should check it out.

[maestro_dmc]

Oh, got it. You must work there, huh?

[DeadPoet]

Originally posted by maestro_dmc
Oh, got it. You must work there, huh?

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it

[zallen25]

Originally posted by maestro_dmc
Oh, got it. You must work there, huh?

thank u maestro : )

[littledog]

it must be the mandatory courses in charm that makes all the GC sales force so endearing...

[TexRoadkill]

[Light]

Buy a book if you really want to learn about this stuff. A good starting point would be The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook. There are others, but that is one of the bibles of audio.

Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

[zallen25]

Originally posted by Light
Buy a book if you really want to learn about this stuff. A good starting point would be The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook. There are others, but that is one of the bibles of audio.

Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

"sigh".........way ahead of you bro. It's a great book.