When y'all are adding subwoofer support to your full range speakers are you using a passive or active crossovers?
I have been noticing commercially available active crossovers that slice and dice and have super powers relative to what I experienced back when I was more active building systems. I must confess I have an irrational mistrust of op-amps and a Luddite impulse to insist on discrete transistors. Truth be known, and if money were no object, it would be all metal film resistors, polypropylene capacitors, chokes and custom wound audio transformers pour moi.
I had a recent experience that makes me suspicious of introducing anything between the source and amplifier-speaker driver. I purchased a Behringer headphone amplifier recently that was so dreadful that I spent no more than ten minutes listening to it before returning it to the store.
What is best practice for reinforcing the bottom end of a full range? To keep this question simple, lets consider something modest like the Fonken 167 with a sealed 10" subwoofer like the CSS SDX10. Given the efficiency of these drivers are people bi-amping active or staying passive?
I have been noticing commercially available active crossovers that slice and dice and have super powers relative to what I experienced back when I was more active building systems. I must confess I have an irrational mistrust of op-amps and a Luddite impulse to insist on discrete transistors. Truth be known, and if money were no object, it would be all metal film resistors, polypropylene capacitors, chokes and custom wound audio transformers pour moi.
I had a recent experience that makes me suspicious of introducing anything between the source and amplifier-speaker driver. I purchased a Behringer headphone amplifier recently that was so dreadful that I spent no more than ten minutes listening to it before returning it to the store.
What is best practice for reinforcing the bottom end of a full range? To keep this question simple, lets consider something modest like the Fonken 167 with a sealed 10" subwoofer like the CSS SDX10. Given the efficiency of these drivers are people bi-amping active or staying passive?