Hi all,
I am reading a bit about sound basics for personal interest, so have lots of questions.
Reading about the crossovers (passive mainly, but some about active as well) there seems to be a great complexity and the designs seem really difficult by the Experts own admission.
My forecast (worthless of course)is that we'll be moving more and more toward active Xovers with multi amped active speakers (wireless transmissions and cheap amplifiers getting very common).
But now there is one thing I do not understand: if digital recordings are able to move lower frequencies in a whole channel to be sent to the subwoofer, why can't a chip split each channel into low/mid/high frequencies and send those separately so that each signal can be sent to the appropriate driver?
I.e. my question is: can we do without hardware Xovers (whether active or passive) and use software to do the job and avoid the problems created by the hardware?
I am reading a bit about sound basics for personal interest, so have lots of questions.
Reading about the crossovers (passive mainly, but some about active as well) there seems to be a great complexity and the designs seem really difficult by the Experts own admission.
My forecast (worthless of course)is that we'll be moving more and more toward active Xovers with multi amped active speakers (wireless transmissions and cheap amplifiers getting very common).
But now there is one thing I do not understand: if digital recordings are able to move lower frequencies in a whole channel to be sent to the subwoofer, why can't a chip split each channel into low/mid/high frequencies and send those separately so that each signal can be sent to the appropriate driver?
I.e. my question is: can we do without hardware Xovers (whether active or passive) and use software to do the job and avoid the problems created by the hardware?