So I've been playing with my Audiocontrol DQS for a couple days now, and I was remembering what I've read about about crossover slopes still letting signals beneath the crossover point through to the speaker. The amplifier I'm using has a 10db crossover, so the slope isn't very steep, meaning a lot of unwanted signals are reaching my speakers. Since I now have each set of speakers on a seperate channel with it's own EQ, I thought it might be possible to simulate a much steeper crossover slope by using the EQ, and severely cutting the frequencies I don't want each group of speakers playing. If this isn't a stupid idea, would you reccomend using the parametric EQ for this purpose? or just the graphic EQ? If it's a stupid idea, could someone breifly enlighten me as to why it's stupid?

 

Oh come on, there's gotta be some old greybeard here who's actually handled an RTA before still visiting this site...

 

what's a nubian?

 

A member of an ethnic group originally from northern Sudan, now inhabiting East Africa and some parts of Northeast Africa, in southern Egypt?

I'm trying to get the most out of my speakers right now, particularly my rear deck speakers, which say they go down to 35Hz.
It seems to me, since a crossover is nothing but an attenuation slope, that I could use the EQ to attenuate low frequency signals down, allowing me to set the crossover closer to the low end limit of the speakers. This would allow me to get their full range, and still be able to run the system at high power levels without distortion. The theory is that the frequencies that would not be attenuated by a 12dB crossover at high volumes would be attenuated by the EQ instead, preventing distortion.

update:
It works, but it's messy. a proper electronic crossover is probably the way to go, but I don't want another box in my signal path.