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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulD" data-source="post: 4545745" data-attributes="member: 589636"><p>you may not understand how passives work .....  first remember that passive crossovers do soak up some of the amp power, so if you put 135 watts into a passive, you may be getting out 100 or 110 watts or whatever.  The second thing is that when you go passive, both the mid AND the tweet see the full power being fed into the crossover (minus bleed off) in the speakers respective freq range.  The problem here is that amps only have a certain amount of power, which is being spread out over a large range of freq's.  Typically, you can go active with say a 100x4 amp and just set the gains right.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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