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Single full-range drivers
The crossover network has many disadvantages. Here are a
few:
Crossover ringing If a signal applied across a capacitor ends
abruptly, a charge is left which then discharges through any
parallel circuit. In the case of a crossover filter this will be the
associated driver. A similar effect occurs with an inductor, an
abrupt cessation of current causes a rapidly collapsing
magnetic field which cuts its own windings. This generates a
voltage that produces a current in any parallel circuit which
will be of the same polarity as the original. So the effect is to
sustain the current after the original has ceased.
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