Altec Valencia's

[drudo]

Hello all,I'm new here.
I have a set of Altec Valencia's and I would like to bi-amp them.
I looked at the crossovers (N800 8K),
they look to be 2nd order butterworth.
I used a HP RC analyzer on the inductors & caps and found them to be about 1.69 Mhy.
The cap on the low freq. side was about 20uf.
The cap on the high freq. side was about 7.9uf.
It looks to me that the low side rolls off at around 865hz.
and the high side comes in at about 1377hz.
Does this sound right?
What becomes of the gap between 865 and 1377?
How would I set up my electronic crossover?
Thanks,
Dindle

[armandh]

remember LC is not as sharp a cutoff as digital and the horns were really hot in the mid range the gap is not gone just reduced to match the speaker efficiency.

[Art J.]

And also, the second order Butterworth has a 3db
response peak at the crossover point if aligned.
This could be fixed by gapping the points like
it seems they did. Linkwitz-Riley alignments
didn't come out until 1976 and solved that problem. Your active crossover set at 800 should
be fine and well worth your efforts. Good Luck.

reference
http://www.rane.com/note107.html