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Re: Audio Monitors for Editing

Subject: Re: Audio Monitors for Editing
From: Bret <>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:20:54 -0700 (PDT)
--- Charles Bragg <> wrote:
> At 05:47 PM 7/26/2004 -0700, Dan Dugan wrote:
>
> >>As I have the ability to be working down into infrasound I've been
> >>watching the low end specs as I looked. Very discouraging, I'm
> likely to
> >>end up with something pretty big. Which then won't fit.
> >
> >Of course not. You want a subwoofer or two.
>
>         An article in $ensible $ound within the last year, I believe,
> set out good reasons to avoid subwoofers in the interest of accurate
> reproduction. IOW, get one for movies, but not for music. The reason
> was that almost all external crossover systems are inadequate.
> Getting an accurate balance with two speaker systems was virtually
> impossible.

Please elaborate regarding "all external crossover systems are
inadequate".  You must be refering to high level, passive crossovers?
Low level, active crossovers (with addtional amps) are a very different
matter regarding control of response, and thus balance.
bret


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