Confusion about 2 way speakers

[bikingbuddha]

Hi everyone, I am just a little bit confused with what each driver does. I have a pair of Advent Prodigy towers, in it, the bass and vocals are handled by the woofer. Yesterday I bought a pair of Infinity Reference 30. I am surprised that vocals and everything else come from the polycell dome tweeter and the big speaker just do bass.

Almost all the two-way speakers I have seen, Bass and vocals are handled by the big speaker and the tweeter does most of the highs.

I may be wrong but I really would like a little explanation. Thanks a lot, take care!

 

[Grenadeslio]

Hi everyone, I am just a little bit confused with what each driver does. I have a pair of Advent Prodigy towers, in it, the bass and vocals are handled by the woofer. Yesterday I bought a pair of Infinity Reference 30. I am surprised that vocals and everything else come from the polycell dome tweeter and the big speaker just do bass.

Almost all the two-way speakers I have seen, Bass and vocals are handled by the big speaker and the tweeter does most of the highs.

I may be wrong but I really would like a little explanation. Thanks a lot, take care!

It's all Xover/driver dependant, there's no hard fast rule. Many small inexpensive 2/way designs have little to no Xover on the woofer letting it run full range. Where others to achieve deeper bass will have a more complex Xover making the tweeter pick up more of the frequency spectrum, this can have the affect of less power handling, sound output, and higher cost, but not necessarily.

more confused yet lol?

 

[bowtie427ss]

Begin by understanding the full frequency range of vocals and instruments.

Nothing is limited to just the woofer, or just the tweeter.

 

[Grenadeslio]

Begin by understanding the full frequency range of vocals and instruments.

Nothing is limited to just the woofer, or just the tweeter.

unless of course you're Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips lol.

 

[bowtie427ss]

In the mid/late 80's Gallien-Kruger, and Hartke Systems made the presence of tweeters in their bass guitar cabinets quite visually obvious.

Today, companies like SWR, and Eden are continuing that same tradition.

 

[z-adamson]

Hi everyone, I am just a little bit confused with what each driver does. I have a pair of Advent Prodigy towers, in it, the bass and vocals are handled by the woofer. Yesterday I bought a pair of Infinity Reference 30. I am surprised that vocals and everything else come from the polycell dome tweeter and the big speaker just do bass.

Almost all the two-way speakers I have seen, Bass and vocals are handled by the big speaker and the tweeter does most of the highs.

I may be wrong but I really would like a little explanation. Thanks a lot, take care!

One of the strangest threads I have seen.

But, a 2way speaker uses a crossover, a high frequency driver and a low frequency driver. The crossover sends the frequencies that are above a certain point to the high frequency driver and it sends the frequencies below a certain point to the low frequency driver. This is a typical set up. In some cases the crossover allows the low frequency driver to play full range, rolling off naturally.

So you can see (hopefully) that it's not about which speaker play vocals, it's about where on the frequency spectrum the sound falls and how the crossover is designed. This is what decides which driver does what.

 

[bikingbuddha]

One of the strangest threads I have seen.

But, a 2way speaker uses a crossover, a high frequency driver and a low frequency driver. The crossover sends the frequencies that are above a certain point to the high frequency driver and it sends the frequencies below a certain point to the low frequency driver. This is a typical set up. In some cases the crossover allows the low frequency driver to play full range, rolling off naturally.

So you can see (hopefully) that it's not about which speaker play vocals, it's about where on the frequency spectrum the sound falls and how the crossover is designed. This is what decides which driver does what.

Thanks for clearing this out. So as far as i understand... The lower driver in infinity is much better at handling lowest frequencies so designer has built the crossover im such a way that most of mids and highs are handled by dome tweeter.

On the other hand in advent prodigy it was slightly different.

 

[bikingbuddha]

It's all Xover/driver dependant, there's no hard fast rule. Many small inexpensive 2/way designs have little to no Xover on the woofer letting it run full range. Where others to achieve deeper bass will have a more complex Xover making the tweeter pick up more of the frequency spectrum, this can have the affect of less power handling, sound output, and higher cost, but necessarily.

more confused yet lol?

Got your explanation loud and clear.