What is the purpose of: Equalizers and Crossovers

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

you just confused me, are you upgrading to components, If so most component sets come with Crossovers. Or are you going to buy a set of Mid range drivers and a set of tweeters, and do a kind of custom component set. And as stated most amps have internal crossovers, so all you have to do is set the crossovers on the amp and then you subs are fine. Or if you have a higher end Head Unint (I have an Alpine CDA 9853, with a built in 3-way cross over) with a built in cross over, you can set the amps crossovers to full pass/off, and you can run the crossovers in you HU that way you can adjust them better. But crossovers are needed

Set the crossovers in your head where you want, and run the amps fullrange, or you can cross them too to double the slope. The passive crossovers simply divide the signal toeach part of a component set best suited for that bandwidth.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

To sum it up Active Crossovers are the way to go IMHO.

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

The downside to the passive crossovers with the infinities, is that it simply divides the signal between the mid and the tweet, it's best if you can lose the low freq. the mid will struggle mightly to reproduce prior to it getting there. The crossover in your sub amp will be fine. Are you amping your Infinity's or runnin' deck power to them? If deck power, high passing them first is a moot point unless it's built into your deck.

ic i don't know much about the infinity crossovers. i was just telling him that his infinitys should come with a crossover and he didn't need to go out and buy one on his own but anyways great info //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsup.gif.3287b36ca96645a13a43aff531f37f02.gif

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Set the crossovers in your head where you want, and run the amps fullrange, or you can cross them too to double the slope. The passive crossovers simply divide the signal toeach part of a component set best suited for that bandwidth.

Thats what i just said, you didnt confuse me, the guy with the infinites did. I coundnt tell what speakers he was running

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

To sum it up Active Crossovers are the way to go IMHO.

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[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

Actively cross the input signal, and passivley cross the output at the speaker level (the crossovers the infinity's came with).

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

Thats what i just said, you didnt confuse me, the guy with the infinites did. I coundnt tell what speakers he was running

Yeah, after I read it again I realized that too. It's all good dude.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

After switching from a passive setup to an active you will see the difference. Although a good passive setup can be just as nice.

 

[solomon 10+ year member]

HUs got that?

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

I like both, epecially with high end components like my Dls Up6's, I figure the engineers @ Dls know more about where to divide the signal than I do. Especially since the tweeters play really low, like 4000hz- the best for male vocals I have ever heard.

 

[bikejunkie223 10+ year member]

HUs got that?

A crossover in a HU would be an active crossover, and few HU crossovers can bandpass, pretty much only the majorly high end ones can (Eclipse w/pro-mode, Nakamichis, etc.)

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

Yeah i have heard some really nice pasive setups.

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

HUs got that?

they got what? crossovers?

edit: nm its been answered

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

HUs got that?

Some head units have crossovers some dont, Alpine, Pioneer, and Eclipse have good ones in their higher end modles