Two questions here: is it worth it/should I? How to do it?
I am building a triplet of 3-way passive speakers (Philharmonitors). I was considering amping them with Buckeye 3-ch Purifi, then remembered that I always wanted to do another active system; I made one before for car audio but never for home. So perhaps I go with 6-ch Hypex amplifier and 2 MiniDSP 2x4HDs. I would tune with UMIK microphone and REW, though I don't have an anechoic chamber or anything. 9-ch Hypex and 3 MiniDSP would break the budget by a bit, though I could do 2 fully-active LR channels and a fully passive Center.
Second question, assuming the above is wise, how do I do it? Two parts to this: the analog and the digital. For the passive crossovers, do I just skip the woofer crossover and do that w/ DSP, then wire the other DSP/amplifier to the mid/tweet circuit? Or is it more complicated than that?
For the digital side, I imagine there are already threads about how to tune an active 2-way system with MiniDSP. Is that the way to go?
I am currently using a Denon AVR X4300H to amp all most of my speakers. I intend to use the pre-outs from that to my LCR.
edit: With the above 6-ch amp and DSPs I was thinking to biamp the speakers with active high pass on the woofer and active low-pass on the mid/tweeter circuit. I could also reverse engineer the woofer crossover and set that up in DSP (I think) then just bypass that Xover altogether. If it makes no sense to monkey with DSP until I have better measuring equipment, I could alternatively bi-amp with the passive crossovers until I have the bandwidth to learn more accurate measurement techniques. Thanks for your thoughts.
I am building a triplet of 3-way passive speakers (Philharmonitors). I was considering amping them with Buckeye 3-ch Purifi, then remembered that I always wanted to do another active system; I made one before for car audio but never for home. So perhaps I go with 6-ch Hypex amplifier and 2 MiniDSP 2x4HDs. I would tune with UMIK microphone and REW, though I don't have an anechoic chamber or anything. 9-ch Hypex and 3 MiniDSP would break the budget by a bit, though I could do 2 fully-active LR channels and a fully passive Center.
Second question, assuming the above is wise, how do I do it? Two parts to this: the analog and the digital. For the passive crossovers, do I just skip the woofer crossover and do that w/ DSP, then wire the other DSP/amplifier to the mid/tweet circuit? Or is it more complicated than that?
For the digital side, I imagine there are already threads about how to tune an active 2-way system with MiniDSP. Is that the way to go?
I am currently using a Denon AVR X4300H to amp all most of my speakers. I intend to use the pre-outs from that to my LCR.
edit: With the above 6-ch amp and DSPs I was thinking to biamp the speakers with active high pass on the woofer and active low-pass on the mid/tweeter circuit. I could also reverse engineer the woofer crossover and set that up in DSP (I think) then just bypass that Xover altogether. If it makes no sense to monkey with DSP until I have better measuring equipment, I could alternatively bi-amp with the passive crossovers until I have the bandwidth to learn more accurate measurement techniques. Thanks for your thoughts.
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