I've studied passive filter at school, 6 month of studying just that argument. Great Scott does it a couple of minutes video. I used to draw lot of Bode charts!
I always watch your electronic video, not because i can understand what your are saying (never understand even a single word) but i watch because im amaze, how you able to think and calculate that much.
Your "engineer penmanship" style is fricking awesome dude... I used to do calculations similarly in college... but I've lost it since I don't use it anymore
A huge part of the discussion missed when dealing with filtering components of capacitors and inductors is the phase change introduced. The phase change is visible on every one of your input/output examples on the oscilloscope. This is a critical consideration. For example, when a dual component (12dB/octave) crossover is used on both the high- and low-pass sections, the output for each will be 90 degrees out of phase totaling to 180 degrees, and the woofer and tweeter will be out of phase and cancel each other out at the crossover frequency. The correction for this situation would be to connect either the woofer or tweeter opposite to how they would normally be connected.
I had to study 3 years of Electronics Engineering just to understand this video! Before i used to watch your videos and didn't understand much, but i watched them anyways!
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the crossover can be complex because of 3 things : 1) to flatten the impedance of speaker drivers so they act more like resistors because otherwise your calculations using that formula won't make sense once you change that dummy load resistor with real speaker driver. 2) how steep are your crossover ? Bessel, Butterworth, LR, 1st or 2nd or 3rd order etc. 3) how well behaved the frequency response of your speaker drivers. hope that helps.
One small step size for man, one giant (but lightweight) rf-leaper - and lots of videos on RUclips 😁 I think up next content will be on the combination of the walki talkie and an audio crossover for audio output (currently directly driven by the atmel) - giving much better audio quality. HiFi even?
You could improve the old cross over by simply replacing the capacitors which ALWAYS degrade over time. In order to start from scratch a crossover that gets the best performance out of the drivers or even to select a good set of drivers from scratch, you need the FRD and ZMA files or the ability to measure and derive them from the drivers themselves. Once you have the files, a free cross over design program like PCD (passive cross over designer) or WinPCD can be used to maximize the performance of the selected drivers. The enclosure type and size is also critical and there are several on line box programs. Parts Express provides the FRD and ZMA files for all of their Dayton Audio drivers and also offers several other brands of DIY drivers. The PE forum is a good source of information as is that of the DIY Sound group. The programs take care of all of the complex math.
Actually, all you need is a bunch of different coils and capacitors, and a ts chart so you know where to start, I've done it many many times, you don't need a computer at all, except to order the parts,
A little project/challenge for you, Scott: since you love bikes, you could create a video converting a motor (2 stroke/4 stroke) from a carburetor fuel delivery system, to an EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection) one, since it's 2019! Surely not a challenge for somebody like you. Also, it can be done with any microcontroller, Arduino too, since it's all about reading data, and doing actions in the given timing.
In India we use rc filters at the input section and the filtered signals are separately amplified by multiple amplifier IC s,and for better low frequency response we use op-amp low pass filter at the input of the channel dedicated for subwoofer.then the stereo amplifier consist of three channels (2.1 system)
I once wanted to put an LM35 inside the output filter inductor of my 3D printer to measure its temp. The high frequency switching induced a shitload of noise on the sensor's wires and would display nonsense. Thats where I remembered those RC filters... Needles to say that a low pass with fc around 500Hz did the job and the measurements were crystal clear afterwards. So dont neglect your filters people even in simple tasks!!!
Another EE here (but haven't dealt with such filters since school). I can't help but think that the signal should be treated digitally (near-"brick walls rolloffs" can be trivially calculated using 1024 point FFTs (not an option when I learned this). Reasons to not do this include the cost of the DSP (probably just a raspberry pi for this crew, but hopefully you can break out the channels at the source of the audio), plus the need for more amplifying channels (although each can have lower power and be optimized for thier frequency range, like using class-d for the woofer). Passive crossovers are likely better between mid range and tweeters, and just split out the woofer (and subwoofer if needed) digitally (this may even reduce a channel needed. At least that's what I've heard of the phase issues (all rlc filters induce phase issues, but a good DSP method's won't be measurable), the higher frequency phase errors aren't nearly as audible to humans.
Yeah DSP is certainly the preferable method, and allows for far more processing than just filtering, but as you say... cost increase and requires a channel per band. An Rpi isn't really suitable for DSP purposes, but a dedicated DSP chip is not expensive, and could be controlled by an Rpi easily if a UI is desired.
The best setup is a class T amplifier for the woofer and a class C one for the mid and high range. The signal is being processed by the amplifiers itself. This brings you the most efficient speaker with the best sound.
Hmmm one question here, The ooutput of the speaker is pretty much the current that flows trought it right? so doesnt the phase shift of a coil or capacitor change it as the incoming signal is voltage modulated and not current modulated. Or is this change just too small to notice
His speakers have an impedance of 4 ohms. Impedance is the combined result of all resistive, capacitive and inductive components in a circuit. Meaning there's no reactance, just like with resistive loads. However, speakers like electrostats or magnetostats have an steep impedance curve and is not a static impedance set on 4 or 8 ohms. Replacing those with a dummy resistive load won't do the job.
An impedance of 4 Ohm does not necessarily equal a purely resistive component of the same value. Basically it could be any combination of resistive, capacitive and inductive elements, that equals this impedance at a given frequency. Impedance is sort of "AC Ohms", but it is frequency dependant if there's not just a purely resistive component. A 4 Ohm impedance can have a significant phase shift between current and voltage.
@@wi_zeus6798 Not necessarily indeed. When impedance is given at a specific frequency it can differ on a different frequency of course. But a static figure on itself will stay the same. 4 is 4 and will always be 4, independent of the frequency, since it isn't specified depending on a frequency. The reason that in this case impedance is specified as a static resistance of 4 ohms is because the deviations caused by frequency response are insignificantly small. So basically its the nominal impedance which is specified by manufacturers of most standard dynamic loudspeakers. However, it does not apply to all types of speakers, especially electrostatic speakers often have their impedance curve specified in a graph, since those variations actually are noticeable, mostly because of their high nominal impedance, which needs to be matched with the amplifier by use of an audio transformer.
That original 'complicated' crossover had a Zobel network. It's designed to help present a constant load to the crossover, compensating for the need to account for the equivalent driver circuit in the crossover. Modeling a woofer as an 8 ohm resistor is a bad idea, considering its inductance will turn a 2nd order filter into a poorly tuned 3rd order filter. With a 2nd order network, you'd invert the terminals on one speaker to account for the 180 degree phase shift. But on a 3rd order network, there would be no point to reversing polarity on one speaker. Fun fact: I replaced an off the shelf crossover with my own design a week ago. The difference is that I designed the speaker enclosure, and chose the drivers, but got cheap with the crossover when I built them. I finally have money for a proper crossover. 16 AWG air core inductors and polypropylene caps for a 60W monitor. It helped that I measured the impedance curves for both drivers and knew what circuit I was really dealing with, along with having a 3D printer for printing the inductor cores for winding them.
Would you consider building an active crossover that would feed into a dual channel 50w D-class amplifier and BI-AMP a two way speaker (Woofer and Tweeter) and comparing the improvement over a passive crossover driven by a single 100w amp.
Don't throw out IIR filters just yet. It can do a fantastic job when combined with digital delay between drivers. Also FIR can significantly delay the audio resulting in poor lip sync if you are not careful
Just built a pair of 3 way floor standing speakers - open source design (SB Acoustics Rinjani) I just bought the drivers and built the cabs myself - didn't bother with the passive crossovers - for just a $100 more bought an active DSP that let's you experiment with this stuff in real time - way better. Now with Parts Express selling really nice amps with on board DSP I can't understand why any home builder would bother with passive cross over any more.
I am redoing the crossover in a set of speakers I have. I am just reverse engineering my existing crossover and building an exact copy with all the same values with much better components while keeping the originals intact. They are not high-end speakers, but they are $1000+ speakers and I think I can squeeze a bit more performance out of the band pass and tweeter circuits with better components. They sound good over all but sometimes it seems like the mids/highs take a step back at higher volumes on really complex tracks. I wouldn't say muddy but I would like a bit more clarity. They don't get any worse as you turn it up, even at house shaking levels they remain relatively clean. That's why I think I can get a bit more performance in the middle out of them with better caps and coils.
Mr.Scott, I make lot of soldering and assembling circuit board every day and I’ve huge headache when my solder iron get oxidised.Can you give me good solution to fix this issue.
surgent sabharishh Make sure you have plenty of ventilation on your work desk. A fan with a lot of airflow will help, but a good solder vent to suck all the fumes away would be the best option.
another reason not to use simple RC-filters for loudspeakers is that the impedance of the loudspeaker (typically 4-8 ohm, almost real and not complex) has to be accounted for, since it is effectively in parallel with the output component of the filter (parallel with C for the lowpass and parallel with R for the highpass). Such a low resistance in parallel would mean that you would have to use veeeery large capacitors to get their reactance into the same order of magnitude for audio frequencies.
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Well, i have ti correct you in one Point: Most speaker companys save Money with the Crossover. They use cheaper components for it. You can tune your Speakers by rebuilding the Crossover with high quality parts and wiring it in Air instead of the PCB. This applies also to high cost Hifi and high end speakers.
Active crossover before the power amplifer is also an option using op amp filters that do not need inductors and are not affected by the electrical characterestics of the speaker
These info is great , I would love to see a video of phase line filters for avoiding EMC noise with motors, is my headache working with micro controllers and big motors
Just a reminder that we say db per octave and not decade. For the rest, great video! The crossover you got from Ebay is quite cheap! Maybe you should have replaced parts in the old x-over by better ones, but of course it all depend on how much you want to invest. Thanks!
Most likely you can't just calculate the frequency response the best you can do is guess for what range they are, if instead you want to know the value and don't have any datasheet of the speaker the only way is to drive the speaker with different frequency and measure it with a microphone ( probably better use a condenser mic) and use some software to see the audio captured by the mic
The fact that amplifier boards are dirt cheap nowadays means there is no need to use beefy crossover as the old-school ways... The filtering can be done at the input stage using simple R-C circuits then the input signals are fed to separate drivers. That is, the woofer and the tweeter have their own amplifiers... Much easier to achieve similar results but of course, one has to appreciate how people in the past made the best out of their current technology, and carefully designed circuits often outperform their more recent counterparts...
how would i make this a variable crossover? id want to adjust the frequencies of the high pass and low pass but im fairly new to building circuits. where would i put the tuning capacitor?
I litterlay just watched the video while reading ALL OF THE COMMENTS. Pls do a video about something about electric cars, because they are a popular subject now.
Tweeter can sound good if tuned well, but woofer is going to lose more. Using short cooper thick cables, can help.That is why active cabinets sound better
@@justgame5508 Wow that does sure go beyond me! I enjoy watching these videos still, even if a lot of it is beyond what i understand - i still always seem to learn something
Does the reactance of the speakers (the inductance of the coil) not matter within the 4 Ohm value? Is that always the case that a speaker impedance only refers to its resistive value and if not, at what frequency is a speaker impedance usually measured? Wonder how that influences actually the filter behaviour...
So I have a button that is connected to my ATX power supply at 5v and I need to send the signal to a arduino that uses just 3.3v. Can I use just a resistor to do it? What about 12v?
-20dB per decade? Taking 10 years to turn down the volume seems kinda inefficient.
Lol.
Never heard decade used with audio before. Since when did octaves go decimal?
@@SuperGrover Bode plots are usually on the logramithic scale, in powers of 10.
@@bassboy2947, exactly
@@quadcorei8085gen2 Üdvözlet! Ön véletlenül nem a budapesti Radnóti Miklós Gimnáziumban (volt) fizikatanár?
I've studied passive filter at school, 6 month of studying just that argument.
Great Scott does it a couple of minutes video.
I used to draw lot of Bode charts!
Yep, good old Laplace and transfer functions
For stuff like this, one would work with lots of polynomial math than Bode plots. Chebychev was one sadistic bastard!
Haha he was, our professor would take points off if the plot did not show a slope of -20 db/dec
Sry i speak peasant what degree was this for?
Electrical Engineering
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER... oh wrong channel :p
Full bridge audio rectifier
Full bridge rectumfrier
Beating a dead horse
@@caffeinatedinsanity2324 Where can I buy such a rectumfrier, Sir?
Mr. Boom lol
I always watch your electronic video, not because i can understand what your are saying (never understand even a single word) but i watch because im amaze, how you able to think and calculate that much.
Your "engineer penmanship" style is fricking awesome dude... I used to do calculations similarly in college... but I've lost it since I don't use it anymore
ElectroBoom and GreatScott! Fans?
Yeah ;P
Jea
JLC PCB is like your new intro, in every video
Well, they keep the show going.
A huge part of the discussion missed when dealing with filtering components of capacitors and inductors is the phase change introduced. The phase change is visible on every one of your input/output examples on the oscilloscope. This is a critical consideration. For example, when a dual component (12dB/octave) crossover is used on both the high- and low-pass sections, the output for each will be 90 degrees out of phase totaling to 180 degrees, and the woofer and tweeter will be out of phase and cancel each other out at the crossover frequency. The correction for this situation would be to connect either the woofer or tweeter opposite to how they would normally be connected.
True, but not neccessarily. Sometimes the phase shift of the speaker drivers themselves offsets the crossover phase shift.
Equalization is quantization 🧐
I had to study 3 years of Electronics Engineering just to understand this video! Before i used to watch your videos and didn't understand much, but i watched them anyways!
Is this video recorded with a new Sony camera ? :)
It is :-)
Cool!
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I somehow forgot my account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me!
@Larry Brady Instablaster ;)
@Atticus Alexander I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process atm.
Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
You can pop back the dustcap with a vacuum cleaner.
EDIT:thanks for the likes
and if that doesn't work: Use a small, long needle, poke a hole in it, and pry it out (using the same needle)
Yeah
failing that again, toothpick and a very very tiny drop of glue, either hot or superglue, thats up to you and the material of the cap
Sticky tape does the job as well as long as it’s not too sticky ;)
for rigid/metallic dust caps, hot glue + toothpick or lips-sucking techniques work... :}
the crossover can be complex because of 3 things : 1) to flatten the impedance of speaker drivers so they act more like resistors because otherwise your calculations using that formula won't make sense once you change that dummy load resistor with real speaker driver. 2) how steep are your crossover ? Bessel, Butterworth, LR, 1st or 2nd or 3rd order etc. 3) how well behaved the frequency response of your speaker drivers. hope that helps.
needed lossless format (WAV/FLAC/ALAC)
Good one old TESLA capacitor :D
Just looked at the comment section to see if anyone else noticed XD
I have some foil capacitors at home along with thick coils and even op amps from Tesla.
"Good" old communism times in Czech Republic... XD
Tesla legendární značka :D
True, I love Tesla’s caps and any older Tesla tech =D
@@electrixhusky2379 jo no =D
Will you finish the walkie talkie project?
im also looking for it
Did you see Andres's fix on the opamp? Had to do with unpredictable behavior of a wave as it peaks near the high rail. One resistor.
Check out Andrea Spiess' video on modifying the walkie-talkie to actually work.
MitsuZer0G check the pinned commeny
One small step size for man, one giant (but lightweight) rf-leaper - and lots of videos on RUclips 😁
I think up next content will be on the combination of the walki talkie and an audio crossover for audio output (currently directly driven by the atmel) - giving much better audio quality. HiFi even?
An outstanding - clear; concise; and comprehensive job covering the material !! Thanks Great Scott !!
You are a highly educated man please make your explanations easier so that more people can understand
wow this video did a better job explaining filters than my EE proffessor
You could improve the old cross over by simply replacing the capacitors which ALWAYS degrade over time. In order to start from scratch a crossover that gets the best performance out of the drivers or even to select a good set of drivers from scratch, you need the FRD and ZMA files or the ability to measure and derive them from the drivers themselves. Once you have the files, a free cross over design program like PCD (passive cross over designer) or WinPCD can be used to maximize the performance of the selected drivers. The enclosure type and size is also critical and there are several on line box programs. Parts Express provides the FRD and ZMA files for all of their Dayton Audio drivers and also offers several other brands of DIY drivers. The PE forum is a good source of information as is that of the DIY Sound group. The programs take care of all of the complex math.
The Impulse Audio and 123Toid youtube channels have videos that go through the cross over design process using the free cross over design programs.
Actually, all you need is a bunch of different coils and capacitors, and a ts chart so you know where to start, I've done it many many times, you don't need a computer at all, except to order the parts,
A little project/challenge for you, Scott:
since you love bikes, you could create a video converting a motor (2 stroke/4 stroke) from a carburetor fuel delivery system, to an EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection) one, since it's 2019! Surely not a challenge for somebody like you. Also, it can be done with any microcontroller, Arduino too, since it's all about reading data, and doing actions in the given timing.
0:40 WOOW, amazing, Capacitors made by TESLA from czechoslovakia!
He's from Germany
In India we use rc filters at the input section and the filtered signals are separately amplified by multiple amplifier IC s,and for better low frequency response we use op-amp low pass filter at the input of the channel dedicated for subwoofer.then the stereo amplifier consist of three channels (2.1 system)
God does anyone else wish you had his handwriting
Your channel helped me learning electronics, and I'm doing an economic college. Thanks😁
I once wanted to put an LM35 inside the output filter inductor of my 3D printer to measure its temp. The high frequency switching induced a shitload of noise on the sensor's wires and would display nonsense. Thats where I remembered those RC filters... Needles to say that a low pass with fc around 500Hz did the job and the measurements were crystal clear afterwards. So dont neglect your filters people even in simple tasks!!!
Especially when reading a DC signal.
Your handwriting,the way you write and draw things is amazing
Learned something new!! A 'decade" isn't only just a measurement of 10yr increments ;)
This is the best video for sleeping at night lol i literally slept while watching the video
nice video! i used to learn about bandpass and band stop filters in school. the equations get really crazy with all the complex parts
That may stupidity to you but I learned a whole lot of things from it. Thank you for doing it.
Your diagram drawing is very therapeutic! :)
Let’s just keep in mind that when the speaker is connected, the transfer function changes. Vout is not the same with load than it is without load.
Another EE here (but haven't dealt with such filters since school). I can't help but think that the signal should be treated digitally (near-"brick walls rolloffs" can be trivially calculated using 1024 point FFTs (not an option when I learned this). Reasons to not do this include the cost of the DSP (probably just a raspberry pi for this crew, but hopefully you can break out the channels at the source of the audio), plus the need for more amplifying channels (although each can have lower power and be optimized for thier frequency range, like using class-d for the woofer).
Passive crossovers are likely better between mid range and tweeters, and just split out the woofer (and subwoofer if needed) digitally (this may even reduce a channel needed. At least that's what I've heard of the phase issues (all rlc filters induce phase issues, but a good DSP method's won't be measurable), the higher frequency phase errors aren't nearly as audible to humans.
Yeah DSP is certainly the preferable method, and allows for far more processing than just filtering, but as you say... cost increase and requires a channel per band. An Rpi isn't really suitable for DSP purposes, but a dedicated DSP chip is not expensive, and could be controlled by an Rpi easily if a UI is desired.
The best setup is a class T amplifier for the woofer and a class C one for the mid and high range. The signal is being processed by the amplifiers itself. This brings you the most efficient speaker with the best sound.
Dudeeee congratulations on 1M
Hope you reach 10M soon
Love from India ❤️
Tesla capacitors from czechoslovakia 👍
Co ty tu :)
Hmmm one question here, The ooutput of the speaker is pretty much the current that flows trought it right? so doesnt the phase shift of a coil or capacitor change it as the incoming signal is voltage modulated and not current modulated. Or is this change just too small to notice
You can always get into a new world of audio and go for active crossovers... :)
You just tested with a 4 ohm load, but you used a resistive load, speakers are an impedance load not resistive.
Ac resistive loads = impedance load
His speakers have an impedance of 4 ohms.
Impedance is the combined result of all resistive, capacitive and inductive components in a circuit.
Meaning there's no reactance, just like with resistive loads.
However, speakers like electrostats or magnetostats have an steep impedance curve and is not a static impedance set on 4 or 8 ohms.
Replacing those with a dummy resistive load won't do the job.
An impedance of 4 Ohm does not necessarily equal a purely resistive component of the same value. Basically it could be any combination of resistive, capacitive and inductive elements, that equals this impedance at a given frequency. Impedance is sort of "AC Ohms", but it is frequency dependant if there's not just a purely resistive component. A 4 Ohm impedance can have a significant phase shift between current and voltage.
@@wi_zeus6798 Not necessarily indeed. When impedance is given at a specific frequency it can differ on a different frequency of course.
But a static figure on itself will stay the same. 4 is 4 and will always be 4, independent of the frequency, since it isn't specified depending on a frequency.
The reason that in this case impedance is specified as a static resistance of 4 ohms is because the deviations caused by frequency response are insignificantly small.
So basically its the nominal impedance which is specified by manufacturers of most standard dynamic loudspeakers.
However, it does not apply to all types of speakers, especially electrostatic speakers often have their impedance curve specified in a graph, since those variations actually are noticeable, mostly because of their high nominal impedance, which needs to be matched with the amplifier by use of an audio transformer.
He even measured the original speakers impedance with his multi-meter, so why worry about resistive load vs not resistive load ?
Very good video. I Like it 👍
Crisp and clear explaination ❤
What was the performance of the original circuit unit? Seemed like it used high quality components.
Good point!
That original 'complicated' crossover had a Zobel network. It's designed to help present a constant load to the crossover, compensating for the need to account for the equivalent driver circuit in the crossover. Modeling a woofer as an 8 ohm resistor is a bad idea, considering its inductance will turn a 2nd order filter into a poorly tuned 3rd order filter. With a 2nd order network, you'd invert the terminals on one speaker to account for the 180 degree phase shift. But on a 3rd order network, there would be no point to reversing polarity on one speaker.
Fun fact: I replaced an off the shelf crossover with my own design a week ago. The difference is that I designed the speaker enclosure, and chose the drivers, but got cheap with the crossover when I built them. I finally have money for a proper crossover. 16 AWG air core inductors and polypropylene caps for a 60W monitor. It helped that I measured the impedance curves for both drivers and knew what circuit I was really dealing with, along with having a 3D printer for printing the inductor cores for winding them.
Would you consider building an active crossover that would feed into a dual channel 50w D-class amplifier and BI-AMP a two way speaker (Woofer and Tweeter)
and comparing the improvement over a passive crossover driven by a single 100w amp.
MiniDSP modules are the answer. Forget passive filtering DIRAC is the way. FIR filters rock and the ability to correct phase is essential these days.
Don't throw out IIR filters just yet. It can do a fantastic job when combined with digital delay between drivers. Also FIR can significantly delay the audio resulting in poor lip sync if you are not careful
@@chrislambe400
Indeed. I'm just playing about with an IIR module right now... to run the sub in my wife's van.
Just built a pair of 3 way floor standing speakers - open source design (SB Acoustics Rinjani) I just bought the drivers and built the cabs myself - didn't bother with the passive crossovers - for just a $100 more bought an active DSP that let's you experiment with this stuff in real time - way better.
Now with Parts Express selling really nice amps with on board DSP I can't understand why any home builder would bother with passive cross over any more.
I am redoing the crossover in a set of speakers I have. I am just reverse engineering my existing crossover and building an exact copy with all the same values with much better components while keeping the originals intact. They are not high-end speakers, but they are $1000+ speakers and I think I can squeeze a bit more performance out of the band pass and tweeter circuits with better components. They sound good over all but sometimes it seems like the mids/highs take a step back at higher volumes on really complex tracks. I wouldn't say muddy but I would like a bit more clarity. They don't get any worse as you turn it up, even at house shaking levels they remain relatively clean. That's why I think I can get a bit more performance in the middle out of them with better caps and coils.
Iam waiting for this video for along time because iam dj maintenance and make alot of this circuits but iam learned alot from you thanks bro.
Mr.Scott, I make lot of soldering and assembling circuit board every day and I’ve huge headache when my solder iron get oxidised.Can you give me good solution to fix this issue.
surgent sabharishh Make sure you have plenty of ventilation on your work desk. A fan with a lot of airflow will help, but a good solder vent to suck all the fumes away would be the best option.
Evildandalo ok I’ll try this next time
Great video as always I just wanted to say I really LOVE the way you say "calculate" @ 00:36
Haha thanks for the feedback :-)
I didn't expect this crossover.
Nice video 😋
Wow, capacitor from Tesla!!! That's historic - originated in country that no longer exists ;)
another reason not to use simple RC-filters for loudspeakers is that the impedance of the loudspeaker (typically 4-8 ohm, almost real and not complex) has to be accounted for, since it is effectively in parallel with the output component of the filter (parallel with C for the lowpass and parallel with R for the highpass). Such a low resistance in parallel would mean that you would have to use veeeery large capacitors to get their reactance into the same order of magnitude for audio frequencies.
Hey great scott happy friendship day
Even numbered crossovers (2nd order, 4th order) change the phase by 180 Degrees. The fix is reversing the tweeter polarity
Or the midrange driver, if we are speaking about a 3 way speaker.
The pwm filtering is really useful too. Doing Arduino to CV for music!
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I've never really thought about how the sound gets split between the woofer and tweeter. Good to know. 👍
u r so perfectionism in writing
*perfectionist
Nice job. Would have also been nice to cover the phase relationship between inductors and capacitors.
Well, i have ti correct you in one Point: Most speaker companys save Money with the Crossover. They use cheaper components for it. You can tune your Speakers by rebuilding the Crossover with high quality parts and wiring it in Air instead of the PCB.
This applies also to high cost Hifi and high end speakers.
Thanks for the information :-)
nice vid, everytime my notification pop-up fo your vids i always remember the scientist in back to the future saying "great scott!" hehe
That program name though. 😂 I guessed immediately that the author is Finnish.
i went back to see what you where talking about... lol!! he blended that very well so it sounds technical! hahaha
Positive thinking has always been a finnish virtue. 🤣
I caught that also immediately, I laughed my ass off. Genius guy. Maybe he did have a real life example with beta to name the software XD
Can you share with those who don't know Finnish, please? :D
@@MrCh0o Heh, sure the software name is slightly altered, meaning F*cked cad ( same as F'd up) :D
I forgot the guy who reviews TVs and calibrations for TVs but you remind me of him
this video is so helpful to me, thank you!
What a lovely well made video. Well done.
Active crossover before the power amplifer is also an option using op amp filters that do not need inductors and are not affected by the electrical characterestics of the speaker
bi amping requires more amplifiers though, it certainly has it's advantages but they are usually only used at the very high end of audio equipment.
Who wants to have amplify two signals though...
Now there's 20$cad little 2ch amp, i think it is something worth thinking tho
Insane people...@@DatsunRacingTeam
These info is great , I would love to see a video of phase line filters for avoiding EMC noise with motors, is my headache working with micro controllers and big motors
I bought a couple Amazon crossovers and soldered them in and test drove which one to keep. This is for old vintage speakers that I restored
do you know about dc12 v tracked metal gear chassics and how to use with audrino is it possible to create crawler
you need ro make it
Could you make a circuit breaker that stop charging your phone after full.
By mean completely cut off.
@@kingSnake35 why
Maybe I missed it, but explaining why you need a crossover vs letting each speaker do its own thing.
to avoid freqs that sound poorly in each speaker.
Danke für die Guten Videos. Haben mir bei meiner Ausbildung immer gut geholfen. Weiter so
I remember struggling with this in engineering school. This video.... um yeah.... doesn't everyone know that? Great video tho. Lots of meat!
7:03 I think you confuse damping and gain. -3dB gain means 3 dB damping.
The higher the damping, lower the power.
Very good explanation, thanks Scott!
This is one more good video!
Just a reminder that we say db per octave and not decade. For the rest, great video! The crossover you got from Ebay is quite cheap! Maybe you should have replaced parts in the old x-over by better ones, but of course it all depend on how much you want to invest. Thanks!
Nice video. Is it possible to calculate or measure the frequency response of a speaker ??
Most likely you can't just calculate the frequency response the best you can do is guess for what range they are, if instead you want to know the value and don't have any datasheet of the speaker the only way is to drive the speaker with different frequency and measure it with a microphone ( probably better use a condenser mic) and use some software to see the audio captured by the mic
cool. i used to explain that with decent speakers, the enclosure, the drivers and the crossover (when matched) are a full working set.
The fact that amplifier boards are dirt cheap nowadays means there is no need to use beefy crossover as the old-school ways...
The filtering can be done at the input stage using simple R-C circuits then the input signals are fed to separate drivers. That is, the woofer and the tweeter have their own amplifiers...
Much easier to achieve similar results but of course, one has to appreciate how people in the past made the best out of their current technology, and carefully designed circuits often outperform their more recent counterparts...
Thank you so much Scott I wanted to know how to make a crossover for my project! Love your videos😁👍
Take a look at Kirby meets audio or soundblab or ask me because loudspeakers kan bee really confusing
@@klangfreund5244 Yeah I know both of them and have learnt a lot about audio ! BTW thanks
Awesome....
Make home appliances pcb theory as well as practical...
Like ...AC, fridge, Washing machine, TV etc...🙏
Does upgrading crossover part with more expensive replacements make sense?
Thanks for the video 💯 learned a lot
Amazing video, possibly you can try to explain the phase as well? 😀
how would i make this a variable crossover? id want to adjust the frequencies of the high pass and low pass but im fairly new to building circuits. where would i put the tuning capacitor?
I'm listening to this on DIY speakers with DIY crossovers
I litterlay just watched the video while reading ALL OF THE COMMENTS. Pls do a video about something about electric cars, because they are a popular subject now.
As always, you explainations are just amazing. It helps me to understand really well!
Thanks for the feedback :-)
Thank you, and I finally find the right video
Tweeter can sound good if tuned well, but woofer is going to lose more. Using short cooper thick cables, can help.That is why active cabinets sound better
Now i wish i payed more attention in math 😂
@@justgame5508 Wow that does sure go beyond me! I enjoy watching these videos still, even if a lot of it is beyond what i understand - i still always seem to learn something
Nice video.
I always wait for your next video.
Thanks man
You're welcome :-)
Please explain what is different between normal transform and audio transform which is used in high end audio recording gear and why they are used to
Great tutorial and link. Thanks!
9:20 wrong equation! I love your videos btw!!!!!
Thanks man, this helped me to understand crossover bit better for my speaker projects
Does the reactance of the speakers (the inductance of the coil) not matter within the 4 Ohm value? Is that always the case that a speaker impedance only refers to its resistive value and if not, at what frequency is a speaker impedance usually measured? Wonder how that influences actually the filter behaviour...
So I have a button that is connected to my ATX power supply at 5v and I need to send the signal to a arduino that uses just 3.3v.
Can I use just a resistor to do it?
What about 12v?
Use a buck converter available on eBay for $.99 - $3.00
Look up voltage divider