Solved! Speakercrossover

[lightoflife]

I have these tower speakers with two 10" woofers 4 ohms 600 watts each two 5" midranges and two horn tweaters. had to replace woofers and mids, now i need to know how to change the cross overs? these are in each tower

 

[Dr_M0rph3us]

Hi lightoflife,

If the crossovers are still functional, and the speaker parameters have not changed significantly, the same crossovers can be reused with the new speakers.

Otherwise, if you want to change them for any reason (maybe they are defective or very old and need reconditioning or the speaker specs are different), the situation is a bit different and requires some knowledge on both the parameters of the speakers and those of the enclosure (architecture, resonance frequency, and so on).

Mainly, any crossover unit or pack you can find on the market has three basic parameters:
- maximum power throughput (should be the same or more than the associated speaker power)
- frequency cut-off frequencies and slope (should be inside the range of each speaker, and consider also the slope measured in dB/octave)
- impedance (should be as high as possible for any item installed in parallel, otherwise reduces the power reaching the speaker and may heat the crossover components)

For more information and detaile, you can check these two articles:
- Understanding and Designing Passive and Active Crossovers
- Designing Passive Crossovers

Cheers.