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AlexKunec

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Im about to build some active speakers and use a Bryston 4B to power the mids and a adcom to power the tweeter.

Now, on linkwitzlabs.com it says "The amplifiers must have identical voltage gains" (for active crossovers).

I really doubt that they (Bryston and adcom) do have identical voltage gains. Could I use an active circuit to attentuate or amplify either the tweeter or mids so to compensate for them having different gains?
 

ThomasW

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Just put input level controls on the power amps or even easier on the active crossovers.
 

Saurav

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Figure out which driver needs to be attenuated, and then put potentiometers on it. You can leave it that way, or once you've picked a final position for the pot, measure it and then use fixed resistors to build an equivalent voltage divider. That's what I planned to do, but I'm still playing with the relative levels of the drivers trying to see how different settings sound.
 

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