crossover question for tannoy mx1

Simple question but, I'm not sure about that:


Bass speaker crossover; there is serial inductor and paralel capasitor&resistance (6,8uf&3,3ohm-series). Speaker is 3,8-4ohm and 0,06mh.

So, question is this series capasitor&resistance(c3, r4) are Zobel network?
 

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I don't have frd and zma for a four ohm driver with that low a voice coil inductance, but doing a quick sim on a driver with 0.2mH voice coil it certainly isn't having much of a zobel like effect.

It may be being used for subtle repsonse shaping or possibly to modify the phase a little to get better phase alignment with the drive it is intgerating with.

edit: sorry it is acting like a zobel, I'm tired, and stuffed up the sim 🙂

Tony.
 
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The graph was just to show what the 6.8uF cap + 3.3ohm resistor does to the impedance of a similar woofer 🙂 the black curve shows the rise in impedance due to the voice coil inductance, a filter works differently depending on the impedance. Using a zobel to flatten out the impedance (as in the blue curve) means that the crossover (in your case the 1mH coil) is dealing with a more constant impedance which will change the rolloff to an extent.

Tony.