Audio Xover Click is an analog active crossover solution for two-way loudspeakers. The primary purpose of the crossover circuit in a loudspeaker is to split an incoming audio signal into frequency bands that are passed to the speaker or “driver” best suited. Audio Xover Click is based on Microchip’s MCP6H012 operational amplifier with rail-to-rail output operation, connected in configuration for 2nd order Butterworth filter for both low pass and high pass filters. With a frequency response independent of the dynamic changes in a driver's electrical characteristics and individual channel cutoff frequency selection it's great solution for crossover.
Audio Xover Click board™ is supported by a mikroSDK compliant library, which includes functions that simplify software development.
Audio Xover Click is using three Butterworth filters (one for each speaker) with possibility of changing cutoff frequency between 120Hz, 90Hz and 70Hz. Butterworth filters are called maximally flat filters because, for a given order, they have the sharpest roll-off possible without inducing peaking in the Bode plot. The two-pole filter with a damping ratio of 0.707 is the second-order Butterworth filter.
Audio crossovers are a type of electronic filter circuitry used in a range of audio applications, to split up an audio signal into two or more frequency ranges, so that the signals can be sent to drivers that are designed for different frequency ranges.
Active crossovers are distinguished from passive crossovers in that whereas passive crossovers split up an amplified signal coming from one power amplifier so that it can be sent to two or more drivers (e.g., a woofer and a very low frequency subwoofer, or a woofer and a tweeter), an active crossover splits up audio signal prior to amplification, so that it can be sent to two or more power amplifiers, each of which is connected to a separate driver type.
Active crossovers as Audio Xover Click don’t care how powerful your amplifiers are because they process the signal before it enters the amplifier. Active crossovers are also not very sensitive to temperature variations, so they can be very accurate, all the time. If one of the amplifiers channels in an active crossover system clips, the distortion only affects that single channel.
Features:
- Interface: GPIO
- Compatibility: mikroBUS™
- Dimensions: 57.15 x 25.4mm
- Input Voltage: 5V
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