should i buy pair of crossovers for my splits?

[GMHCalais]

hey all,
sorry if this questions been asked already, couldnt find anything..

anyway ive got my splits and everything. but no crossover. should i buy the pair of crossovers? what sound difference will it be making if i do?

any help appreciated

-frank

[StoneX]

Splits come with crossovers unless they are a low end model and then they come with just a high pass filter capacitor for the tweeters.

What brand/model splits do you have?

[Slippy_Trippy]

The crossover will allow you (to a certain degree) to decide the frequency at which your 6" stop recieving audio and sending it to the splits instead. ie a crossover with a roll off frequency of 4kHz will send things over 4kHz to the tweets and anything below to the 6". Then you can also adjust how steep the roll off is ie how steeply the crossover rolls off anything above it's frequency.

You can seriously read for hours upon hours about crossovers as there are also different types.

As for sound difference, I'm not sure what you have now in terms of crossover (ie do the speakers have inbuilt capacitor crossover) but upgrading from a simple cap crossover to an active of capacitor/inductor network should give you a small difference but I'm not sure how perceptible. You will hopefully at least be able to adjust the crossover frequency. Don't run your tweeters without some form of crossover as you will destroy them by sending them signal they can't handle.

I hope that helped, even a little.

-Slippy

[StoneX]

As for sound difference, I'm not sure what you have now in terms of crossover (ie do the speakers have inbuilt capacitor crossover) but upgrading from a simple cap crossover to an active of capacitor/inductor network should give you a small difference but I'm not sure how perceptible.

Are you talking about putting the cap/coil before amplification? Those components are still called a passive crossover if used after the amplifier.

[Philthy]

Like the others have said, it depends what you have already got.
If the tweeters have a capacitor filter already then you probably wouldn't bother upgrading unless you were fussy about sound quality

But if the tweeters don't have any sort of high-pass filter then you definately need to get yourself a pair of crossovers or they won't last a day

EDIT: Info on the splits would probably tell us everything we need to know as well

[Slippy_Trippy]

simple cap crossover to an active of capacitor/inductor network

Meant to be or not of. Two seperate things.

[StoneX]

Speak English.

[GMHCalais]

EDIT: Info on the splits would probably tell us everything we need to know as well

umm as far as i know, there cadence splits, as majority of my whole systems cadence..

either i dont have crossovers or i do and the audio installers hid the crossovers someplace i cant seem to find?! lol

[StoneX]

They usually do hide them... Just follow the wires from the woofer or tweeter and and see where you end up.

[GMHCalais]

They usually do hide them... Just follow the wires from the woofer or tweeter and and see where you end up.

i shall try that tonight, cheers

[Slippy_Trippy]

Did my English just get canned ?