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In Reply to: Speakers with Subwoofers in the Ultra High-End? posted by Doug Schneider on June 24, 2024 at 13:21:32:
A speaker system must be an integrated system. And if it employs a sub woofer, that sub woofer is part of that system. You need to use a bespoke crossover between all portions of a speaker system in order to get optimum integration and therefore optimum reproduction.
A generic crossover doesn't work between a mid and a tweeter and it doesn't work optimally between a woofer and a sub woofer. This is readily evident with so many sub crossover having no high pass filters, only low pass. This means for good(still not optimal) integration you need to roll in the sub where the woofer begins to roll off. This may not be optimal. And even more severe no high pass means the woofer is still being fully stressed and with a high pass the stress, significantly reduced which improves dynamics and detail and openness, etc.
A system with a subwoofer should not be thought of as a speaker with added sub but as a single system where the sub happens to be physically separated from the rest of the speaker. It demands a crossover designed just for that system, designed as individually as every other crossover in the speaker. And this is true whether the crossover is active as essentially all subs or passive. I happen to have 18" sub passively crossed with both high pass and low pass designed just for my speaker and when I added the sub all the advantages I mentioned above due to a high pass filter were immediately and severely evident.
So I'm all for the concept in the Sonus Faber Suprema system. I know how hard it would be to do really proper crossovers when adding a sub to a speaker system. But perhaps with today's technology it can be done(for a price, of course). Now that digital can be so good how about a digital active crossover system with the ability to read the system like room correction does and that can then create a real time crossover, both high and low pass, that has a few good target functions in the software?
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