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1st order crossover?

The speakers I have, have a 2 inch dome driver that has crover points at 1,000 and 2,000. In the owners material and set up a lot of attention is given to phase and time. Each driver is in it's own cabinent and a measuring device is used to align each cabinent after measuring the seating position from top of sub and floor to ear distance. Can the crossover points for that 2 inch dome be 1st order "6db per octave" when it is not even covering an octave. It has been said that drivers for 1st order crossovers have to cover such a wide frequency range. That is not the case here. Hope to learn a few more things on 1st order crossovers. Thanks
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I don't see why not. 1st order just means the slope of rolloff is at 6db/octave, so the dirver is in fact operating over a greater range than 1000 -2000. That's the tough thing about 1st order crossover designs-- the drivers have to perform well over a much larger frequency range than they do in higher-order designs.

This is a 5-way design? I suppose that is one way to work around the demands of gradual slopes. Is this the same Dale who now makes the Intuitive Design products?
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