Signature Series speaker line

[BlueFox]

James, I am looking at the PDF for the Signature speakers and its external crossover. There are 3 inputs, and I assume 3 outputs. Does this mean each speaker requires 3 amplifiers and 6 speaker cables? So for a stereo we need 6 amps and 12 speaker cables?

Also, what is the benefit of the external crossover?

Thanks.

Albert

[SHV]

Originally Posted by BlueFox

James, I am looking at the PDF for the Signature speakers and its external crossover. There are 3 inputs, and I assume 3 outputs. Does this mean each speaker requires 3 amplifiers and 6 speaker cables? So for a stereo we need 6 amps and 12 speaker cables?

Also, what is the benefit of the external crossover?

Thanks.

Albert

"Also, what is the benefit of the external crossover?"

From my understanding, the external passive X-over has better "parts" than the internal X-over but mainly allows an upgrade path to the active crossover system. The latter does require three separate channels of power amplification per speaker ie. one 6BSST2 per side or 7BSST2+4BSST2, etc. per side.

Steve

[James Tanner - Bryston]

Originally Posted by SHV

"Also, what is the benefit of the external crossover?"

From my understanding, the external passive X-over has better "parts" than the internal X-over but mainly allows an upgrade path to the active crossover system. The latter does require three separate channels of power amplification per speaker ie. one 6BSST2 per side or 7BSST2+4BSST2, etc. per side.

Steve

Correct Steve

The outboard crossover uses air core inductors instead of ferrite and the capacitors are custom made Bryston versions rather than generic caps.

The outboard passive crossover has 3 inputs but we link those together for you using wires so you only need ONE set of speaker inputs on the input side (you can remove the wire links and use three sets of cables if you wish on the input side as well). The Output side needs 3 cables (we sell a kit for that) because the speaker has 3 sets of inputs. So the Signature series only needs ONE stereo amp.

If you want to go to the Active version of the speaker then the External Passive crossover gets replaced with a 3-way stereo Electronic crossover and then you need 6 channels of amplification - 2 for tweeters - two for mids and two for woofers.

james