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I have been using an active crossover for some time (minidsp). The latest project I have worked on, Belle bass bin/prv horns with Ev drivers, in a two configuration. Has forced me to play around a bit. First I had to turn off Audessey, then a couple of weeks ago I had to remove all eq settings from the minidsp. Tonight I even changed the crossover setting to just 600hz. After spl matching all drivers at the sweet spot. Things are really sounding good. I remember DeanG giving me crap about playing around with an active some time ago. I wonder if he was referring to all the crap I was attempting to implement into the system ( as far as equing goes). I have often wondered how some passives would do me good on most of my experiments. My problem is dropping the $300-$400 minimal on passives, to find out they won't work. Especially when decent actives can be had for that amount. I don't want to turn this into a passives or actives are better than one or the other. But I would like to know how simple passives are compared to equing and time aligning with actives. This has been covered before, but how can we keep it simple to sound good. Are there lower cost passive designs that will sound as good if not better than setting a crossover and the spl level of each driver?
