First Stupid Question for 2004

[AudioIrony]

Just wanting to know what the purpose of a stereo crossover is. Can't seem to find a simple answer so far.

Crossovers provide precise frequency dividing for multi-amplified speaker applications.

but what does it all mean?

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[siberiansun]

it's used to divide a signal into frequency divisions.
to make sure that everything below say, 250 hz gets sent to the sub. everything between 250-4000 goes to the mid speakers and everything above 4000 goes to the tweeters.

[darkrezin]

A crossover just divides a frequency range at a definable/fixed point. It's useful for such things as driving a subwoofer (i.e. you don't want to send high frequency content to a sub) and bi-amped speakers (which have dedicated inputs for the tweeter and the bass driver).

[garyb]

or in a multiband compressor(to compress different frequencies differently).

[AudioIrony]

Great - thanks...all is clear now
Cheers