Down South
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Which is incorrect. If you had not cherry picked but had posted what Rod said it would have included what he said - if you want to go 'fully active' THEN you disconnect the passive x/over entirely - otherwise you leave the mid/tweeter section of the x/over in place.Well according to Rod Elliot:
I stand by my statement
My post was 'that if you want to 'try bi-amping' you will get a real taste of what is possible. Using 3 amps - one for bass, one for mids and one for the tweeter, than go active. The guy from Fosi has two way speakers, so using 4 amps makes sense. I think using 4 monos is overkill but why shouldn't he try that configuration.
My speakers use Tonigen ribbon tweeters that are now properly sealed from the mids which is also sealed from the bass section - there is an awful lot of energy generated by the bass unit. The wiring is protected from this energy inside FEP tubing. If you were to attach sensors to the wiring and as usual the passive x/over plate you would soon see just how much the function of the bass unit, inside it's enclosure generates sound pressure which changes in intensity all the time aka energy is moving/shifting. The Sextet has a downward firing port at the bass. If there was no energy being generated by the bass transducer there would be no point in having ports of any kind.