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Over 2 xovers

Hell. How about. It doesnt matter. Lol

Either way it will work

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Does not matter if it is 2 crossovers. If they were in the same case and/or on the same board, they are still individual circuits.

Inductors increase in resistance with frequency, caps decrease in resistance in frequency. If you draw out the complete schematic and analyzed the circuits, you would see that over the frequencies the midbass is playing, the mid and tweeter circuits are a very high resistance, so the fact that they are in parallel with the midbass does not affect the overall impedance in that frequency band (4 ohms in parallel with several hundred ohms is still pretty much 4 ohms. Add the crossover component resistance, an it actually looks like more than 4 ohms).

Same thing in the mid band - midbass circuit and tweeter circuit have a very high resistance. And the same over the tweeter operating frequencies.

Not trying to beat this to death - just trying to help everyone understand how a crossover works. Not only does it provide low pass and high pass filters, but when it is designed correctly it will maintain an even load to the amp.

I get this question a lot - people think they need an 8 ohm mid and an 8 ohm tweeter to build a 4 ohm component set. . .

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1997 Blazer - (4) Customer Fi NEO subs with (8) American Bass Elite 2800.1s

Previous systems:

2000 Suburban - (4) BTL 15's and (4) IA 40.1's = 157.7 dB at 37 Hz.

1992 Astro Van - (6) BTL 15's and (6) IA 40.1's = 159.7 dB at 43 Hz.

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