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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 1863683" data-attributes="member: 561023">Crossovers are not a &quot;brick wall&quot; wherein every frequency outside of their setting is stopped dead in its tracks prior to the processed signal being sent to the drivers in question.Let&#039;s take the LP filter for example:If you set a LP filter @ 63Hz then all frequencies below that are attenuated down at whatever slope the crossover operates at. This doesn&#039;t mean everything above 63Hz is taken out of the signal path altogether but rather the....what&#039;s the word I&#039;m looking for....we&#039;ll say &#039;volume&#039; of those frequencies is reduced. The steeper the slope of the crossover is (12dB/octave is pretty standard, some crossover use an 18dB/octave slope, some use a 24dB/octave slope, and some have even steeper slopes in use) makes those frequencies being attenuated roll off even more dramatically.In your example of the LP @ 63Hz and the HP @ 70Hz the frequencies in between 63Hz and 70Hz are going to be reproduced but at a lower volume than everything else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 1863683, member: 561023"] Crossovers are not a "brick wall" wherein every frequency outside of their setting is stopped dead in its tracks prior to the processed signal being sent to the drivers in question. Let's take the LP filter for example: If you set a LP filter @ 63Hz then all frequencies below that are attenuated down at whatever slope the crossover operates at. This doesn't mean everything above 63Hz is taken out of the signal path altogether but rather the....what's the word I'm looking for....we'll say 'volume' of those frequencies is reduced. The steeper the slope of the crossover is (12dB/octave is pretty standard, some crossover use an 18dB/octave slope, some use a 24dB/octave slope, and some have even steeper slopes in use) makes those frequencies being attenuated roll off even more dramatically. In your example of the LP @ 63Hz and the HP @ 70Hz the frequencies in between 63Hz and 70Hz are going to be reproduced but at a lower volume than everything else. [/QUOTE]

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