I own quite a few Bookshelf speakers and love to swap them in and out in my system....Different moods...Different sounds. I generally have high level (speaker level) going to my subwoofer and from there I connect my main speakers. Now the problem is when I connect a pair of speakers that has a second order crossover the subwoofers output is greatly reduced or it seems each channel is of different phase, cancelling out a good portion of bass. Is this due to the drivers being wired out of phase in a 2nd order crossover. When I connect my homemade speakers with a first order this doesn't happen ! Any thoughts ?
I own quite a few Bookshelf speakers and love to swap them in and out in my system....Different moods...Different sounds. I generally have high level (speaker level) going to my subwoofer and from there I connect my main speakers. Now the problem is when I connect a pair of speakers that has a second order crossover the subwoofers output is greatly reduced or it seems each channel is of different phase, cancelling out a good portion of bass. Is this due to the drivers being wired out of phase in a 2nd order crossover. When I connect my homemade speakers with a first order this doesn't happen ! Any thoughts ?