Active VS Passive Crossovers

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Active crossovers use an electronic device/s that split the signal to highs and lows for a 2-way, tweeter and woofer configuration. Of course they can get more complicated if you have a 3-way speaker design or above. But that is the basics. Now is it worth it? Or is it chasing after a problem that should have been done at the factory? What are your thoughts? Leave them in the comments section. And thanks for watching!

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[ErinsAudioCorner]

Understand that active crossovers aren’t necessarily better if they are not used correctly. Designing an active or passive crossover involves the same process: using proper anechoic measurements.

Once the crossover is properly designed, room correction software isn’t an issue.

[KING_DRANZER]

To be more clear on it. First you need to do active crossover using some DSP where you tie in all the different drivers per speaker into a single unit. And then the AVR sees that entire package as a single speaker. So yes at that point it will treat it as a speaker irrelevant of it having Active or Passive crossover. And no AVR processing in no way be getting tied into DSP processing. Yes it will process it in the sense you will be able to set high-pass filter for those speakers EQ them etc as per the requirement of the room and speaker placement. But no it won't be interfering with crossover set on the DSP itself. It sees and treats the entire package as a single speaker that is it.

[AmazonasBiotop]

Yeah there's so much benefits from a sound quality stand point to do the crossover before the power amplifier.
The two major drawback is you need to know what you are doing and inconvenience.
But when you do that then the benefits is that huge that it is not even funny to compare.