Systems and Crossovers
Martin Colloms, Paul Darlington · 2018
There are no hard and fast rules for the design of a successful loudspeaker system. Two distinct loudspeaker system design routes exist: systems designed in every detail by a loudspeaker manufacturer including manufacture of the drive units, and secondly, systems assembled from original equipment manufacturer (OEM) drivers possibly from multiple sources. When designers expand a given range of speakers, it has become popular to take the basic design of a stand-mount two-way loudspeaker, and make a floor-standing model by adding a further bass driver. The crossover network components for high-fidelity application should exhibit low losses and possess an adequately high voltage and current capacity. It is accepted practice to assume that an amplifier is a voltage source, effectively zero source impedance and that loudspeakers or loudspeaker systems are linked to the amplifier by an appropriate two-wire cable of negligible loop resistance. The idea of a truly digital loudspeaker has been proposed.