Amp/xover for Hartley 24 subwoofer


Hi Guys. I'm running a wall-mounted Hartley 24" woofer as a subwoofer to my Maggie 20.1's. It is powered at present by a Manley 170 watt mono tube amp, crossed over at 18db/octave at 50Hz by a Dahlquist DQ-10 crossover. My Maggies are rolled off at 6db/octave at 100Hz by a simple capacitor. I'm thinking I can do better with a solid state amp and a parametric equalizer/crossover at 24db/octave (keeping the 6db/octave for the high pass). Any ideas?
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The Audio Control "Richter scale" is what you want. 24 dB slope for both the subwoofer and Maggies will keep them inphase with each other at X/O. Also, the steeper slope will do a better job of keeping the Maggie diaphrams from flopping around trying to do LF.