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In Reply to: Ozzie - thanks posted by topher_m on April 26, 2007 at 18:50:51:
topher, Actually flexibility is the best characteristic of the Marchand. You can choose your own crossover frequencies and slopes. Like the DEQX, you can even mix and match the slopes. Say 24 Db for the woofer low pass and 18 Db for the mid coming in. Just trying to help you save a few $$$ if poss and get the same result you are after. I am running 24 Db slopes all around. Tried others and frequency crossover points, but came back to 24 Db slopes at the stock crossover points.I only have a digital front end. An old Sony 777 modded to sound pretty darn good. As far as the power, when you go active, you will be running less than -10 Dbs of peak power at any listening level. I have 385 on the woofers (300 Hz on down), 100 pure Class A on the mids (300 Hz - 3 KHz) and 45 single ended Class A on the tweets (3 KHz on up). I once took a measurement of the tweeters output. With a peak and hold meter I registered something like 2 volt peaks (1.85 actually). Seriously! That is less than 1 watt peaks. So the amp is sluffing along at any volume setting, thus making the argument of which amplifier design overloads more graciously a moot point. If you don't overload in the first place, there should be no artificial peak limiting ala flattening the wave form (tubes), which as we all well know, is distortion in and of itself.
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