I was forced to put a 33 Ohm resistor in series with my tweeter in a 2-way speaker. (Same arrangement on both L and R speakers in a stereo pair.)
Otherwise, the tweeter was dominating like crazy.
The tweeter is 4 Ohm in resistance. So it seems I'm running it at 8.5% capacity (!) This is unbelievable to me, losing over 90% of tweeter efficiency to balance out the sound.
How normal / usual is this?
Otherwise, the tweeter was dominating like crazy.
The tweeter is 4 Ohm in resistance. So it seems I'm running it at 8.5% capacity (!) This is unbelievable to me, losing over 90% of tweeter efficiency to balance out the sound.
How normal / usual is this?
I had decided to use a 40R resistor to meet the sensitivity of a midwoofer while designing a crossover for a 2 way loudspeaker.
This was for the Burning Amp 2015 Xover Contest. It was necessary, hence normal.
This was for the Burning Amp 2015 Xover Contest. It was necessary, hence normal.
True, but look at it's increased power handling that allows a lower XO point and/or slope if desired and why some of us routinely use compression drivers only or proper (super) tweeter horns with point source drivers.
Poor choice of drivers. Why not to select midbass and tweeter with similar sensitivity?
Or do mtm.
DIYers are known to have rich imagination, making it more difficult to judge one's choice of drivers.
still curious as well what drivers.
Large amount of padding is what it is.
I would just assume the woofer /midrange has very low sensitivity.
And if losing additional sensitivity with baffle compensation.
Sounds feasible.
If by chance some hearing damage. It is assumed you loose
those frequencies. But has also been known to be sensitive
to fatigue in the same range. So maybe your listening preference
is a very soft high end.
I tend to not use 4 ohm tweeters unless absolutely necessary.
Or the system could be summing with a large peak.
And maybe excessive padding to compensate a peak at the crossover
point. So be interesting to see the drivers used
Large amount of padding is what it is.
I would just assume the woofer /midrange has very low sensitivity.
And if losing additional sensitivity with baffle compensation.
Sounds feasible.
If by chance some hearing damage. It is assumed you loose
those frequencies. But has also been known to be sensitive
to fatigue in the same range. So maybe your listening preference
is a very soft high end.
I tend to not use 4 ohm tweeters unless absolutely necessary.
Or the system could be summing with a large peak.
And maybe excessive padding to compensate a peak at the crossover
point. So be interesting to see the drivers used
For $10 a pair, that's what I could get for my budget. They work OK actually, I have some prior experience with them.
Sorry but don't I have to have a lab-like setup with a special mic to measure the speaker output while feeding it a frequency sweep, plus run some special software for it?
I don't have them.
Or did you mean something else, perhaps?