The 1610 Series 8 – Design Insights articles provide a deeper look into the engineering behind the speakers. This section focuses on the crossover design, the part of the speaker that ensures all drivers work together seamlessly and accurately.
Precision Through Integration
The crossover networks in the 1610 Series are built using an unusually high level of components for this price category, chosen for electrical stability, low loss, and long-term consistency. While largely unseen, these components play a critical role in preserving phase behavior, tonal accuracy, and dynamic integrity. This level of crossover execution allows each driver to operate seamlessly within the system, maintaining clarity and coherence across volume levels and content types.
1610 Crossover
The 1610 Series crossover is engineered for signal purity, thermal stability, and long-term reliability, using only carefully selected, high-quality components.
Throughout the entire signal path, only non-ferrous materials are used. No steel nuts, washers, or parts that could smear the signal.
High-grade components are used throughout, including wire-wound resistors and aluminium heatsinked wire-wound resistors capable of handling extreme thermal loads without tonal shift. Air-core inductors are employed in the midrange and tweeter circuits to avoid saturation effects, while polypropylene capacitors are used in the tweeter path for low loss and high transparency.
The filter topology is carefully chosen for optimal driver integration, with 4th-order filters for the high-frequency section and 2nd-order filters between woofer, midrange, and high-frequency transitions across the entire series, balancing precision, phase behavior, and musical coherence.
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