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<blockquote data-quote="thylantyr" data-source="post: 1251257" data-attributes="member: 560358">I stopped playing with passive crossovers, oh.. 20 years ago.... because I&#039;m a &#039;power user&#039;who wants more from the sound system and only an active crossover system letsme do this easy without worrying about all the passive crossover gremlin issues. An activesystem will require more amplifier channels and a good active crossover but it more like&#039;plug and play&#039; than a passive &#039;fixed&#039; system. If you get your test bench running with a DCX,you&#039;ll see how easy it is, you&#039;ll be spanking yourself for thinking about passive crossover design whenyou realize why primitive it is. Seriously, a DIY&#039;er who has passion for audio is wasting their time with passive.But to be fair to the other camp, if you have product to sell the passive system is better. One speaker thanthe consumer hooks up and it&#039;s all done, simple. You don&#039;t care if the consumer likes it, let them shop aroundfor 1000 loudspeakers to find the cool sounding one. I can make my loudspeaker give me differentsounds by tweaking the crossover. Why settle for one sound when you can create many?/evil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thylantyr, post: 1251257, member: 560358"] I stopped playing with passive crossovers, oh.. 20 years ago.... because I'm a 'power user' who wants [B]more[/B] from the sound system and only an active crossover system lets me do this easy without worrying about all the passive crossover gremlin issues. An active system will require more amplifier channels and a good active crossover but it more like 'plug and play' than a passive 'fixed' system. If you get your test bench running with a DCX, you'll see how easy it is, you'll be spanking yourself for thinking about passive crossover design when you realize why primitive it is. Seriously, a DIY'er who has passion for audio is wasting their time with passive. But to be fair to the other camp, if you have product to sell the passive system is better. One speaker than the consumer hooks up and it's all done, simple. You don't care if the consumer likes it, let them shop around for 1000 loudspeakers to find the cool sounding one. I can make my loudspeaker give me different sounds by tweaking the crossover. Why settle for one sound when you can create many? /evil [/QUOTE]

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