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Old Jun 11, 2009 | 07:39 PM
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Slope

Hi,

How do you figure out what slope to set in your xover setting?
6, 12, 18 or 24 dB/oct?

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Old Jun 11, 2009 | 08:02 PM
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you listen to the driver (speaker)

play with all the settings and see what you like best, personally I like my lower frequency drivers (sub/midbass) to have sharp slopes (24db/ or higher) and the tweets to be high passed at 6db/...etc
Old Jun 11, 2009 | 08:55 PM
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How does changing the slope alter the sound?
Old Jun 11, 2009 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by reganj
How does changing the slope alter the sound?
read THIS...it will help

if you need it in simpler terms I can try to make it make sense.
Old Jun 11, 2009 | 09:17 PM
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Know the frequency parameters of the driver... do not exceed them, that is what slopes do to protect you from yourself.

Slopes make the HF, mid, mid-bass, sub drivers integrate well

Slopes make a huge sonic contribution, not that they alter the sound but they maximize the capabilities of your selected drivers
Old Jun 12, 2009 | 11:20 AM
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How would you set up the xover on this set up?

Front Speaker Specs: 50hz - 30khz (pair of 4" & pair of 5.25")

Rear Speaker Specs: 50hz - 30khz (pair 4 x 6)

Sub : 50hz - 200hz (single 8 ")

the front and rear channel have an active HPF (in head unit)
the sub channel has an active LPF (in head unit)

from this, how do i determine at which frequency to cut off the HPF and the LPF. and also how do i determine what slope?

thanks for any help its really appeciated.

Last edited by Jazz; Jun 12, 2009 at 11:23 AM.
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