I'm planning a midbass and horn setup and want to go passive. I realise I need to seriously attenuate the horns (approx 105dB efficiency and 8Ohm drivers) in relation to the midbass (approx 89dB efficiency and 4ohm) my amp is happily 2 ohm stable.
I know I can use a simple Lpad (I have a variable rotary L-pad for initially setting the horn level) but would their be any benefit (bear in mind I have already built the Xover so don't want to change the driver impedance) in running a 16Ohm compression driver with a 16ohm resistor in parallel to get my 8 Ohm load. This would reduce the sensitivity without having a resistor in series. Would this be any better than an L-Pad, I have heard people saying that series resistors can 'suck the life' out of detailed treble units.
I know I can use a simple Lpad (I have a variable rotary L-pad for initially setting the horn level) but would their be any benefit (bear in mind I have already built the Xover so don't want to change the driver impedance) in running a 16Ohm compression driver with a 16ohm resistor in parallel to get my 8 Ohm load. This would reduce the sensitivity without having a resistor in series. Would this be any better than an L-Pad, I have heard people saying that series resistors can 'suck the life' out of detailed treble units.