The Care and Feeding of Tweeters..

[gstokes]

The Care & Feeding of Tweeters | Articles | Polk Audio®

Very informative article, i had considered using a single capacitor to act as high pass filter if needed, right up until i read the last 3 sentences in the section "about crossovers"..

here is a quote from the article..

"There is far less low frequency energy getting to the tweeter with a second order crossover than a first order. A tweeter with a second order crossover will play louder and last longer than one with a first order filter. At the lower, more dangerous frequencies, much less energy gets to the tweeter, and thus much less heat."

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