Ken Ahern's "the
beginners" explanation of series x-os
I have included
this as a 'cute' guide to understanding series cross-overs. Thanks
Ken, for the insight !! :-)) AG
It is a direct
quote from an article on one of the forums.
"If I understand Ken's
explanation of a two-way series x-or, I picture a path that splits
into two paths for a ways then comes back together. On the left
path there is a tweeter, then a woofer and on the right path there
is an inductor then a cap. Midway (between the tweet and woofer,
and the inductor and the tweeter) there is a cut across path which
connects the two paths.
So as I continue
my silly analogy, two groups of frequencies are coming down the
path and come to the split. The high freqs look at the inductor
to the right and say, "That doesn't look good!" so they head of
to the left and the tweeter. Of course the low freqs (who have no
resistance to inductors) reach the opposite conclusion and head
to the right. When the low freqs get past the inductor, they see
the cap up ahead and decide to take the cut across to the left path
and face the woofer that goes with it. Meanwhile, the high freqs
have just gotten past the tweeter and are quite relieved to take
the cut across to the cap which offers them little resistance. So
the cut across has allowed the both groups to switch the path they're
on. Of course both groups get back together on the other side and
share a keg (except The Beginner who doesn't drink) and horrendous
war stories (Dan - horrendous spelling?). "..
