It all depends on what you want to do. Do you have a passive or active crossover, how many ways, what's the freq range of the individual drivers?
You need to know that to be able to select the correct xover freq and the filter slopes.
jan didden
So? What are the freq ranges of the various drivers?
If you don't know, you really should make an effort to find out.
You CAN do it by ear, but it's tedious and not guranteed you find the best solution.
Is there ANYTHING you know about the drivers?
In the trial and errror case, I would start with a 80Hz, 2000Hz, and 10kHz xover frequencies.
jan
If you don't know, you really should make an effort to find out.
You CAN do it by ear, but it's tedious and not guranteed you find the best solution.
Is there ANYTHING you know about the drivers?
In the trial and errror case, I would start with a 80Hz, 2000Hz, and 10kHz xover frequencies.
jan
I understand, but I'm sure you understand that this wholly depends on what the various drivers can handle. If you have a midrange that drops below 200Hz it would be pretty silly to set the hipass at 80Hz.
If you don't have that info, maybe you should just literally play it by ear.
Edit: you mean that you need to know how a hpf or a lpf works? It's all in the name.
If your midrange can handle say 100Hz to 3kHz, you set a hpf at 100Hz, that wil 'pass' all signals above (higher than) 100Hz to the midrange.
You then set a lpf at 3kHz which will 'pass' anything below 3kHz to the midrange but progressively cut of signal above 3kHz. Does that answer it?
jan
If you don't have that info, maybe you should just literally play it by ear.
Edit: you mean that you need to know how a hpf or a lpf works? It's all in the name.
If your midrange can handle say 100Hz to 3kHz, you set a hpf at 100Hz, that wil 'pass' all signals above (higher than) 100Hz to the midrange.
You then set a lpf at 3kHz which will 'pass' anything below 3kHz to the midrange but progressively cut of signal above 3kHz. Does that answer it?
jan
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As Jan told you, the crossover has to match the drivers (and, to some extent, the enclosure too). There isn't a magic right answer. Speaker design is always a matter of compromise. For a subwoofer you need to know something about the sub and the main speaker too, because your crossover settings will interact with their native response. It might have helped if you had made it clear from the beginning that you are talking about a sub, not a main speaker.
xedited. It's not the freq range he's after, but the actual working of a hpf and lpf, I guess.
jan
No, I think he has a subwoofer etc. and he wants to know how to choose the crossover frequencies. The full answer has to be "go away and read books on filter theory and electroacoustics, then find out/measure the bare response of your speakers in your room, then choose crossover freqs which gives flattest/most impressive response for the type of music you listen to" but that won't help him very much.
You are correct. This is what I am after, so some helpful information would help me understand more about hpf and lpf.
Thanks
Now I don't understand what you are asking. If you want to know how a filter works, then Google is your friend. You don't seem able to ask a meaningful question with enough supporting information for us to answer it.
One thing which might help is if you set a country flag. Then someone who speaks your native language may be able to help you express your question.
One thing which might help is if you set a country flag. Then someone who speaks your native language may be able to help you express your question.
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