Sensitivity of High Order Loudspeaker Crossover Networks with All Pass Response

Cochenour B, Chai C, Rich DA. Sensitivity of High Order Loudspeaker Crossover Networks with All Pass Response. In: AES Convention 114. Audio Engineering Society; 2003. Paper 5729. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=12509

@inproceedings{Cochenour2003_12509,
  author = {Cochenour, Brandon and Chai, Carlos and Rich, David A.},
  title = {{Sensitivity of High Order Loudspeaker Crossover Networks with All Pass Response}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 114},
  note = {Paper 5729},
  year = {2003},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=12509}
}

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TI  - Sensitivity of High Order Loudspeaker Crossover Networks with All Pass Response
AU  - Cochenour, Brandon
AU  - Chai, Carlos
AU  - Rich, David A.
T2  - AES Convention 114
M1  - Paper 5729
PY  - 2003
DA  - 2003/03/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The sensitivity of high-order filter networks to component matching-tolerances increases with filter order. For an audio loudspeaker's crossover network that is designed to sum to an all pass network, we demonstrate that the sensitivity to component matching tolerances may be dwarfed by sensitivities to other effects. We examine second- to eighth-order Linkwitz-Riley crossovers. The analysis also subsumes networks with transmission zeros and optimized networks where the effects of frequency-response errors introduced by the driver's respective transfer functions are minimized. We remark on crossover networks that are least sensitive to the combined effects of component tolerances, path-delay effects, the interaction of filter sections in speakers that divide the incoming signal into three or more sub-bands, and driver transfer functions.
ER  -