Online crossover calculator?
Anyone know of an online crossover network calculator when you enter the values of the R's, L's, and C's in different configurations? The only ones I've found, you enter the desired crossover frequency for a preselected configuration and it calculates the values of the components. I'm looking for the other way around.
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Check out the PE forum if you can't get your answer here. A lot of DIY speaker builders on there !;)
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Those charts/calculators are near useless."He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thanks, and I understand that the driver and box affect it, but I've got no way to account for those. I won't be using this to design a crossover, I'm using it to get a ball park figure for reverse engineering an old speaker where the drivers are no longer available. It's an old M&K satellite and they had all these funky jumper configurations on the crossover where you use or bypass certain parts of the crossover to get various colors of output. The crossover theoretical crossing points (minus the driver parameters) does put a ceiling on the response (i.e. you can't get MORE once it's already been limited), and that's all I'm looking for.
My aim is to find an existing, characterized, 2-way plus crossover design plus approximate same box design from the various 2-way designs available on line, that is in the ball park of the original crossover.
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What's your budget?"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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What's your budget?
I've learned over the year I always end up over budget since I always start out expecting more performance and value for less money ;o)
But if you want a starter figure, I think $300 for new drivers and crossover components is about where I'd start to cringe. Lower would be better.
I'm already leaning toward scrapping this project, maybe trying to sell the boxes, tweeters (best I can find they are the old Peerless KO10DT's), and stands for the M&K's, and putting the proceeds toward building some of these Dennis Murphy CAOW1's http://www.salksound.com/mbow1.shtml -
Do you have a crossover schematic for the CAOW1's?
If not, check out these:
http://www.madisound.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=35_38_436&products_id=8644 Best bang for the buck!
http://www.madisound.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=35_425
http://www.parts-express.com/wizards/searchResults.cfm?srchExt=CAT&srchCat=769"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche -
Do you have a crossover schematic for the CAOW1's? If not, check out these: ...
He does have the x-over schematic (and box schematic, and response curves, at Murphy's website: http://murphyblaster.com/content.php?f=main.html ) but thanks for those links all the same. Some really interesting alternatives there to ponder.
I'm probably in the minority but the woodworking aspects of speaker box-building are just as interesting as the final product. Too bad all the DIY designs I've seen so far don't stray from the utilitarian boxy look. -
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
