The credit for this crossover design goes to Mike Van
Den Broeck from PE. Thanks to Mike for taking time
out of his busy week to help me out.
Due to the unusual baffle design in this project the
crossover is a little on the extreme side, with eighteen
components per speaker. The nature of the tweeter
placement caused a huge null at 3kHz, and after
playing around with it, we realized that a much higher
mid-to-high crossover point was needed to eliminate
this problem. This was, however, the biggest problem
we came across. The XT25 and the D8G both use
a third-order filter, while the F5 uses a second-order
and a notch filter to help decrease the natural 1.4kHz
peak. After a few days of getting lost in caps, coils,
and alligator clip test leads, we measured it one last
time and it was perfect. I used standard 18-20 gauge
Jantzen air core inductors, and Dayton caps and
resistors.