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<blockquote data-quote="Heide264" data-source="post: 6152889" data-attributes="member: 610716">I was just reading through here and I thought I&#039;d drop my $.02 on it.I wouldn&#039;t say you necessarily get cleaner or muckier sound. Depends on your system. Passive crossovers are set in one place; which is good at times say if you buy your speaker from pioneer or whatnot that includes crossovers &#039;pre-tuned&#039; for your specific speaker. As for me, I have a set of 20 some year old JBL woofers in my door that didn&#039;t come with any form of filter or passive crossover. I used a high pass filter from the amp (active crossover if you want to call it that, just not a dedicated one i guess) so that way the sub was filtered out. It made a huge difference. Much cleaner sounding mids than running full spectrum to the mid woofers (as obvious as that sounds). But at the same time, I have them wired in parallel with tweeters, so I put in a passive low pass on the jbl mids to filter out some of the real high sounds from them.I really think its more of a convenience and sometimes control thing than anything. Both work and do the same thing, just depends on what you want. Adjustable or set in stone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heide264, post: 6152889, member: 610716"] I was just reading through here and I thought I'd drop my $.02 on it. I wouldn't say you necessarily get cleaner or muckier sound. Depends on your system. Passive crossovers are set in one place; which is good at times say if you buy your speaker from pioneer or whatnot that includes crossovers 'pre-tuned' for your specific speaker. As for me, I have a set of 20 some year old JBL woofers in my door that didn't come with any form of filter or passive crossover. I used a high pass filter from the amp (active crossover if you want to call it that, just not a dedicated one i guess) so that way the sub was filtered out. It made a huge difference. Much cleaner sounding mids than running full spectrum to the mid woofers (as obvious as that sounds). But at the same time, I have them wired in parallel with tweeters, so I put in a passive low pass on the jbl mids to filter out some of the real high sounds from them. I really think its more of a convenience and sometimes control thing than anything. Both work and do the same thing, just depends on what you want. Adjustable or set in stone. [/QUOTE]

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