Originally Posted by
chad
Also, I see WAY too many people set a system up so that the amps all clip at the same point. This will lead to a rather unbalanced sounding system as the HF components will generally have a much higher sensitivity than the LF components. In a passive crossover, all those resistors you see, are generally used to pad that tweet down so the woofer can keep up with it. Granted, some are there for impedance correction, but most are used for padding in some way, shape, or form.