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Since i am going to be needing crossovers fro my neew mids/highs....can someone tell me exactly wtf they are and how they work! haha. I know I should know more about them but crossovers are the only thing i realy have no knowledge about, so be simple and make it easy to understand please! thanks!

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In basics....they're just resistors, capacitors, and inductors

Probably didn't help ya though lol

haha well iknow what those are so now i kinda get an idea of what they all do ..kindaish haha

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Audio crossovers are a class of electronic filter used in audio applications. Most individual loudspeaker drivers are incapable of covering the entire audio spectrum from low frequencies to high frequencies with acceptable relative volume and lack of distortion so most hi-fi speaker systems use a combination of multiple loudspeakers drivers, each catering to a different frequency band. Crossovers split the audio signal into separate frequency bands that can be separately routed to loudspeakers optimized for those bands.

Active crossovers allow drivers covering different frequency ranges to be powered by separate amplifiers, a configuration known as bi-amping.

Pretty much ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_crossover

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Keeps your tweeter from playing woofer frequencies and your woofer from playing bass frequencies.

Its the thing that keeps each speaker playing its respective frequencies.

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They are frequency filters. They protect your tweeters from bass, your subwoofers from highs and your mids from extreme highs and lows. Basically, they filter out frequencies that the driver behind the crossover wasn't designed to reproduce.

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At low frequencies a capacitor is an open circuit, high frequencies short circuit -> so as the frequency(Hz) goes down output gets smaller and smaller until nothing(theoretical)

Not 100%, but pretty sure inductors are oppositely related to capacitors in those terms

edit: yes, impedance on inductor goes up as frequency increases, so as your Hz goes up, output again gets smaller and smaller until nothing

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so basicly right now why when i turn my volume to its normal. My crappy pioneers always want to pick up lows my sub cant even pick up....? and the crossover will illimnate this as I take it

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so basicly right now why when i turn my volume to its normal. My crappy pioneers always want to pick up lows my sub cant even pick up....? and the crossover will illimnate this as I take it

Yes, leaving your speakers for only mids/highs

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