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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dogears" data-source="post: 1842814" data-attributes="member: 554502">Quote from an article about crossovers:What's The Difference?From a technical standpoint, crossovers simply divvy up frequencies. So which one does it better? Well, a passive crossover is in the signal path after your amplification. Since it is modifying a signal that has already been amplified, the signal contains wasted amplified frequencies with the passive crossover is going to kill. And due to the complex interaction between musical frequencies and electricity, the crossover point varies with speaker impedance because the crossover limits frequencies by reacting to the speaker load.Active crossovers, on the other hand, are in the signal path before the amplifier. This position allows the amps to receive and amplify the correct frequencies for the speakers attached to it. It's unaffected by speaker impedance and makes your system far more efficient. As I stated before, an active crossover lets your amp concentrate its full power solely on those frequencies it passes to your speakers. For this reason, active crossovers are better. Excellent!Squeak how will each speaker see 100w,  each pair will see 100w.  There will be loads that the mid will see 70 and the tweet will see 30 and vice versa.  The amount of power each speaker will see will vary constantly depending on the reactive load of the speaker in the frequency range.  There will be times when each speaker will each see 50watts per but will never see 100w each at the same time according to what i have learned.  100 watts is 100 watts no matter how you look at it right?  Saying that passives using 200 watts total ( minus approx 15% 170 watts ) will be 3db louder than an active setup using 160w with no loss of power from the crossover doesnt seem correct  (active is more efficient according to that article).   More than doubling the power would in fact make it over 3db louder,  comparing 85w to 40w but each speaker will not see 85w all the time in the passive setup.  I know that you are probably the most knowledgable person on this board,  educate me on how this works.   If that is the case couldnt I use 1 200 watt amp for my sub and midbass and passively cross them over and see the same 200 watts to both in there used frequency range?  Once again I am not wanting to start an argument but learn how this is done and if thats the case maybe design a passive setup for myself.</blockquote>

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