Maximum Damping ..

[gstokes]

Got a firm grip on why 1 driver per channel with active crossover is really the best way to go, with 1 channel only having to drive 1 speaker (and with the passive crossover out of the way) the amplifier has maximum control or damping factor over the individual driver, that single channel is not trying to control 2 or 3 or 4 speakers (through the crossover network)in a coaxial or triaxial or quadaxial or whatever, just 1 driver is all it has to control and there's no L/C/R circuit in the way and that makes the amplifiers job much easier and it also makes for a raw driver that is in better control and able to more accurately reproduce the selected note or tone or musical peak, have i got it right so far ?

feel free to move this to the amplifier or speaker section is you see fit..

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[brian84corvette 10+ year member]

you can do more than 1 speaker per chan IF they are matching speakers - i have a pair of 6.5 fiberglassed in to each one of my doors - and 2 pair of 6.5 in a center consol box devided for pair left and pair right.

i run each door off one channel at 2 ohms

and i run center left pair on ch3 and center right pair on ch4 all at 2 ohms load

but since the drivers are the same - the frequency cut off points are still the same and work....