Audio Project Amplifier Speaker Loudspeaker Kit
diyAudio.com diyAudio Forums Archive > Top > Amplifiers > Solid State
 
Crossover question, real newbie - Click HERE for Original Thread
Christian
Hi,

I just finished a second amp (originaly intended for bi-amping) but I realised that there woulden't really be any effect in the bi-amping if both amps still amplified all frequencies, wouldn't it?

I'm wondering if it's possible to use the filters in my three-way speakers to filters the signal coming to the amps, as a bi-amping application.

I know it's a real newbie question but I thought you'd be the right guys to ask. Any answers are very welcome.


Best Regards,
Chris
KarlP
This is an article by Rod Elliot all about bi-amping: http://sound.westhost.com/bi-amp.htm
GRollins
To biamp, you'll need to arrange some form of crossover ahead of the amplifiers and deliver the output of the amps directly to the drivers. It's not that difficult to do if all you want is a 6 dB/oct slope, but matters become more interesting as you progess to steeper slopes.
If you're building amps completely from scratch, there's always the option of tailoring the frequency response of the amp itself, but it's a bear to change frequencies later if you have to take the amp apart to get to the caps.

Grey
Peter Daniel
quote:
Originally posted by Christian




I'm wondering if it's possible to use the filters in my three-way speakers to filters the signal coming to the amps, as a bi-amping application.



No, it's not possible, because of differences in impedance. Check the thread http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/show...15&pagenumber=1 for more info.

Page generated in 0.18054795265198 seconds with 17 queries,
spending 0.07653809 doing MySQL queries and 0.10400987 doing PHP things.

Powered by: Search Engine Indexer and vBulletin
Copyright ©1999-2009 diyAudio.com