The below is the THD test data measured by my friend, maybe the distance and baffle is different, so it is very different between the two equipments. but i think the THD data (1w,5w,10w) can be use for reference for xover design. Please give your suggestion, thanks!
sorry for the poor English.
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What is the make/model of the tweeter? from the impedance curve it looks like it is a vented design..... I've not come accross one of those before. If it is a vented design then it looks like the tuning frequency is somewhere between 800 and 1000 Hz. You would definitely want to cross at least an octave higher than that (as Loren42 said) and probably with a steep crossover. Any bass reflex speaker unloads below resonance, so it would be very ugly with this tweeter (if indeed it is vented) if it were receiving any significant power below resonance.
Tony.
The rule of thumb is to cross the tweeter at least one octave above its resonance frequency.
However, you also need to consider the performance of the driver you are crossing over with. That performance criteria includes things like the other driver's frequency response, cone breakup characteristics, impedance curve, and driver directivity.
The directivity, for instance, should match the directivity of the the tweeter at the crossover frequency.
So, the whole process is much more complex than simply measuring the performance parameters of a tweeter - you need to consider the rest of the system and the driver(s) it interfaces with.
Thanks! yes, your reply is very professional, I mean if the woofer's performance is not good above 1.6kHz, this tweeter whether can be set the xover point at 1.6kHz, in other words, How is the tweeter's performance if the xover point at 1.6kHz? I only want to use for onwall speaker system, the system power(RMS) is about 50w.
How is the tweeter's performance if the xover point at 1.6kHz?
You are right.
It looks like the impedance curve is not the driver in free air, but a ported cabinet.
You need to characterize the driver in free air.
Is your tweeter a horn loaded compression driver? It would help greatly if you can provide the make and model of tweeter and woofer. The selection of a crossover frequency is meaningless unless the system is taken as a whole.
Is the db scale on the distortion measurements correct? If the THD plot is really 100DB down (at 2Khz) then this would be an incredibly low distortion tweeter! Even where the spike is around 1Khz is 70db down, which would equate to 0.03% distortion!!
You could generalize and say that there is a distortion peak around 1.1Khz and that distortion is virtually non existant from 2Khz and make a decision to cross over at no lower than 2Khz if low distortion is a high priority on the design criterea.
One thing you have to remember is that the crossover is not a brick wall filter (ie it doesn't just stop producing any sound below the crossover frequency) the speaker rolls off at so many db / octave depending on the filter order. So even if you crossover at 2Khz, the speaker will still be making some contribution at 1Khz. If you use 4th order it will be 24db dwn at 1Khz with a 2Khz crossover point.
Tony.
The tweeter is a dome, the diaphragm is titanium, not horn loaded.
Yes, it is really two impedance peak, it is different than tranditional tweeter, but seems very popular.
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I don' think it is measurement error, since other tweeter is one peak, and the free air impedance is easy to operate by LMS.Could be measurement error. Who makes it and what is the model number?