Crossovers

When it comes to setting your car’s audio system, you want to ensure that there are no mishaps later on when you are jamming to some tunes. Therefore, you need to think through each and every component to ensure that you actually need them. Crossovers are perhaps one of the most necessary components.

What Is A Crossover?

The purpose of a speaker crossover is to split the music’s signal by its frequencies and then send those frequencies to various audio components. Also known as an electronic crossover, an audio system with a subwoofer and two-way component will send out the lower frequencies to the amplifier of the subwoofer while the higher frequencies would be to the amplifier of a speaker.

Speaker crossovers are not all created equal. Some are more flexible than others in their ability to route frequencies. Plus, your configuration of your sound system will dictate the type of crossovers you might have. Take a 3 way crossover for instance. This would work in much the same way as a two-way audio crossover except that it has an extra path to take.

You see, with a two way there is the low pass and high pass crossover design while the three way has both of those plus a bandpass path as well. In addition, you have to decide between a passive crossover and an active crossover. The only difference is that with active crossovers, you have to have a separate external power source.

Do-It-Yourself Crossovers

If you are somewhat savvy with electronics and sound physics and installation, you can probably do your own crossovers. However, you will have to fully read up on all the ins and outs of crossover design in order to fully comprehend what it is you want to accomplish.

Remember, what you do with crossovers will greatly affect your sound and if you do not install your car audio crossover wiring correctly, you could potentially blow a speaker or an amp. If that happens, you are losing a sound investment, literally!

Therefore, learn more about the ins and outs of series crossover design. Discover what passive crossover design is as well as what high pass crossover wiring means. Plus, you will want to acquaint yourself with the different components that could potentially make up your crossovers like a Bose 101 crossover circuit.

Of course, if you think about it, by the time you invest all that time in learning about crossovers and installation and design, you could have paid a mobile audio professional to install crossovers for you and without the stress of potential amp or speaker blow-outs.