You don't say!!??
NO FREAKING DUH SoundOfSound!!!! I've only owned the damn things for a couple of years now,,,
Let me take this opportunity to welcome you and your lame replies to the forum!
You guys bring new meaning to the term Zero Sum Game. Nothing can change because nothing is wrong, and even if it were, nothing can change because it wouldn't be stock.
Do you guys have anything intelligent to add? This is a serious discussion!
What I want to know is, now that my XO is broken out into a mid/high and LF, is there any advantage or change in the way the mid and low frequency are interacting? Cmon you guys, I mean I'm ignorant, but not totally STOOPID, at least not to the extent your posts are!
What would make me think such a thing about the XO being out of phase?
How about this article:
http://sound.westhost.com/bi-amp.htm
Here it states:
PHASE RESPONSE:
"This one is nearly as big a "killer" as the power gain - and from a musical point of view it may well be seen as even more important (I happen to think it is). The phase response of any crossover is quite predictable, as long as the source and load impedances are well defined and stable. In a passive crossover, this is rarely the case, and the results can be quite nasty. There is a phase transition around the crossover frequency, and
with even-order crossovers (i.e. 12 and 24 dB/octave), there is actually a phase reversal between the low frequency and the mid+high frequency outputs. This can be seen if one examines the wiring of a speaker using an even-order crossover network, and it will be observed that the midrange driver is wired out-of-phase with the woofer. The same thing happens with the mid to high crossover, except that the tweeter is now back in phase with the low frequency driver.
It must be noted that the phase reversal is required only to ensure that the drivers are in phase at the crossover frequency. A couple of octaves each side, and with the inductive and capacitive load presented by a loudspeaker, the signals are out of phase to a greater or lesser degree. This can only be considered a completely unacceptable situation when you look at it, but there it is - alive and well in a great many speaker systems from the very beginnings of high fidelity right up to the present day.
A conventional crossover by way of comparison has a 3dB peak at the crossover frequency when the two outputs are summed."
3db summed people! That's what I want to talk about!
I'm interested in learning whether or not this is the case with my speakers, and whether or not this bi-ampable XO changes the electrical situation, or allows me to change the summing due to it's different configuration. I'm not interested today in proper speaker placement (see Cardas:
http://www.cardas.com/room_setup_main.php), or your opinion about whether you would change the polarity or not, which by the way amounts to swapping the banana jacks!!
Did you guys no notice that I had the XO's built to be Biampable???? They didn't come that way you know??? If you don't have anything
more intelligent to add to the topic, don't bother!
If on the other hand you do, welcome.