The Crossover Design Cookbook

The Cross Over Design Cookbook
Contents
by Mark Lawrence

Introduction: How to read this book	1
Basic Electronics	2

Chapter 1. Simple Cross Overs	3
What are cross overs?	4
Designing and building a first order cross over	7
Designing and building a second order cross over	9

Chapter 2. How components work	13
How our simple cross overs work	10
Resistors	13
Capacitors	15
Inductors	20
Combining basic components	25
How to make frequency plots	28

Chapter 3. Speaker motors and cross overs	32
Calculating Zobel impedance compensation networks	33
Impedance resonance compensators	35
Measuring Thiele-Small parameters	36
Designing a resonance compensation circuit	38
Driver efficiency and L-pads	40
Final Watt-V Crossover	40
What we've learned so far	43
Crossover Cookbook	43

Chapter 4: The Theory Behind Cross Overs	47
A simple introduction to filter theory	49
Types of filters	51
Properties of different filter alignments	51
The story of Q	53
Types of filter alignments	55
Filter orders	57
Phase	59
Phase, group delay, and time delay	60
Lots of filter functions	62
Second order filters	62
Third order filters	63
Fourth order filters	63
Fifth order filters	64
Sixth order filters	64
Cross overs for three and four way systems	64

Chapter 5. Parallel Cross Overs	65
Summation errors in Serial Cross Overs	67
What is a Parallel cross over?	68
Designing a second order parallel cross over	70
Designing a three way parallel cross over	70
A Cross Over and Equalization Circuit for Electro Static Speakers	76

Chapter 6. Active Cross Overs	79

Appendix 1: Electronics Suppliers	165

Appendix 2: References	168

Appendix 3: Thiele-Small Measurement Worksheet	173

Home
Search
What's New
Copyright © 2002-2021 Mark Lawrence. All rights reserved. Reproduction is strictly prohibited.
Email me, mark@calsci.com, with suggestions, additions, broken links.
Revised Saturday, 26-Jun-2021 01:24:15 UTC
Investing
Motorcycles
Neural Networks
Physics

Next Page