Dear all,
First off, I'm not an expert in designing x-overs and that is why I'm here, To seek help.
I'm in the verge of making a new speaker, I already have the peerless HDS tweeters, I'm planning to use them in a 2.5 way design using 2 peerless 7 inch woofers per side.
When I was surfing the web, I found a 2 way project from our fellow member Jay_WJ using the drivers I'm planning to use, I then downloaded the dataset from his site ( thanks Jay !).
I added 1 woofer and inductor in the simulation using speaker workshop , to make it a 2.5 way, But I'm not sure what I did right or wrong in the simulation.
Below is a screen shot of the simulation I did.
My questions are:
Is it gonna sound good?
Are there wrong component values in x-over circuit?
Do you have any opinion about it?
Is there something wrong with the design?
Btw, The box design will be tilted to about 10 degrees, so I reduced the woofer offset in the simulation to -1 inch, Is this the correct way of using the offset feature in the speaker workshop? The x-over freq. is about 2.4Khz
Thank you , In advance.
First off, I'm not an expert in designing x-overs and that is why I'm here, To seek help.
I'm in the verge of making a new speaker, I already have the peerless HDS tweeters, I'm planning to use them in a 2.5 way design using 2 peerless 7 inch woofers per side.
When I was surfing the web, I found a 2 way project from our fellow member Jay_WJ using the drivers I'm planning to use, I then downloaded the dataset from his site ( thanks Jay !).
I added 1 woofer and inductor in the simulation using speaker workshop , to make it a 2.5 way, But I'm not sure what I did right or wrong in the simulation.
Below is a screen shot of the simulation I did.
My questions are:
Is it gonna sound good?
Are there wrong component values in x-over circuit?
Do you have any opinion about it?
Is there something wrong with the design?
Btw, The box design will be tilted to about 10 degrees, so I reduced the woofer offset in the simulation to -1 inch, Is this the correct way of using the offset feature in the speaker workshop? The x-over freq. is about 2.4Khz
Thank you , In advance.
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Hi,
I'm not sure how you have modeled it but something is seriously
wrong. The level of the tweeter is the same as in Jay_WJ 's design
and simply put it should not be, it it should need to be 5 to 6dB
higher, depending on the relative levels of BSC of the two designs.
Edit : Sorry missed the resetting of R9, but 10R||2R is not the way to do it.
One way of doing a 2.5 way is a lowpass filter for both drivers, this
connected directly to the bass/ mid driver and via an inductor to the
bass only driver, for the given c/o frequency strongly recommended.
FWIW I cannot see the point of the LCR across the tweeter.
/sreten.
I'm not sure how you have modeled it but something is seriously
wrong. The level of the tweeter is the same as in Jay_WJ 's design
and simply put it should not be, it it should need to be 5 to 6dB
higher, depending on the relative levels of BSC of the two designs.
Edit : Sorry missed the resetting of R9, but 10R||2R is not the way to do it.
One way of doing a 2.5 way is a lowpass filter for both drivers, this
connected directly to the bass/ mid driver and via an inductor to the
bass only driver, for the given c/o frequency strongly recommended.
FWIW I cannot see the point of the LCR across the tweeter.
/sreten."...but 10R||2R is not the way to do it."
Thank you for pointing that out, I should have reduced the 10R , so that both R would share power, I forgot about that.
"FWIW I cannot see the point of the LCR across the tweeter."
Yup, You're probably right, I just copied it from Jay, It is to avoid the rising response of the tweeter, But I dont know whether the rise in response in the top octave is audible , Or whether the effect of putting additional component to make the FR flatter have some ill effect in the subjective SQ.
PS. This is where the design of the X-over came from. In this link. Jay 's Peerless HDS 2 way.
Thank you for pointing that out, I should have reduced the 10R , so that both R would share power, I forgot about that.
"FWIW I cannot see the point of the LCR across the tweeter."
Yup, You're probably right, I just copied it from Jay, It is to avoid the rising response of the tweeter, But I dont know whether the rise in response in the top octave is audible , Or whether the effect of putting additional component to make the FR flatter have some ill effect in the subjective SQ.
PS. This is where the design of the X-over came from. In this link. Jay 's Peerless HDS 2 way.
marchel,
A 2.5-way xover is a little more difficult to optmize than a 2-way xover. Below is my quick modeling of a 2.5-way xover. I predict that this will sound nice even without fine-tuning. Nonetheless, I recommend to voice at least the tweeter network to your taste.
An optimal xover point for these drivers in an LR4 TMM design should be in a 1.75 k to 2 kHz range. A 2.4 kHz point is too high for this 7" woofer. No problem with tweeter's power handling at 1.75 kHz LR4.
Do not worry about a wide dip in the 200 to 400 Hz range. It's there because this sim uses a short TM baffle rather than a TMM baffle of a floorstander. If you include a correct baffle diffraction/loss sim result, this dip will be filled.
If you use a 10 degree slanted baffle, the woofer acoustic offset should be about -.3 to -.5 inches for the midwoofer, and -.75 to -1 inches for the .5 woofer. I used these values in my sim.
The CLR series notch filter in the tweeter net was not used without a reason. This was used according to my voicing experience of my Usher/Peerless 2-way. Including these components won't take much cost.
Good luck,
A 2.5-way xover is a little more difficult to optmize than a 2-way xover. Below is my quick modeling of a 2.5-way xover. I predict that this will sound nice even without fine-tuning. Nonetheless, I recommend to voice at least the tweeter network to your taste.
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An optimal xover point for these drivers in an LR4 TMM design should be in a 1.75 k to 2 kHz range. A 2.4 kHz point is too high for this 7" woofer. No problem with tweeter's power handling at 1.75 kHz LR4.
Do not worry about a wide dip in the 200 to 400 Hz range. It's there because this sim uses a short TM baffle rather than a TMM baffle of a floorstander. If you include a correct baffle diffraction/loss sim result, this dip will be filled.
If you use a 10 degree slanted baffle, the woofer acoustic offset should be about -.3 to -.5 inches for the midwoofer, and -.75 to -1 inches for the .5 woofer. I used these values in my sim.
The CLR series notch filter in the tweeter net was not used without a reason. This was used according to my voicing experience of my Usher/Peerless 2-way. Including these components won't take much cost.
Good luck,
Hi,
Jay_WJ has come up with the goods once again. Note the change
of topology to the more usual 3rd order treble / 2nd order bass,
this is good for the higher (nominally 6dB) output level required
from the tweeter (comparing a 2 way to 2.5 way same drivers).
Also note that the 0.5 way driver is fully suppressed, its output
does not "catch up" with the midrange driver above its c/o point.
FWIW my only minor point would be for the tweeter response
shaping a series L||C||R is better IMO than a parallel L-C-R.
/sreten.
(A definitive article on simulating 3-ways is yet to be written .....
No-one has ever detailed the myriad BSC possibilities available .....)
Jay_WJ has come up with the goods once again. Note the change
of topology to the more usual 3rd order treble / 2nd order bass,
this is good for the higher (nominally 6dB) output level required
from the tweeter (comparing a 2 way to 2.5 way same drivers).
Also note that the 0.5 way driver is fully suppressed, its output
does not "catch up" with the midrange driver above its c/o point.
FWIW my only minor point would be for the tweeter response
shaping a series L||C||R is better IMO than a parallel L-C-R.
/sreten.(A definitive article on simulating 3-ways is yet to be written .....
No-one has ever detailed the myriad BSC possibilities available .....)
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