Specifications

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Reference Manual

5 Advanced Features & Options

Crown SST Modules

Crown optional SST (System Solution Topologies) modules

were specially designed to improve the fidelity and versatility

of your audio system. They feature a variety of professional

signal routing and filtering capabilities, with active crossovers

that allow the audio signal to be split and sent to auxiliary am-

plifiers. Your amplifier may have come with an SST module

already factory-installed, or your choice of SST modules can

be easily added to the amplifier by any authorized Crown Ser-

vice Center.

For information on wiring and configuration of amplifiers

equipped with an optional Crown SST crossover module,

please refer to the

SST Crossover Reference Manual

included

in your literature package.

Refer to the following descriptions for an overview of available

Crown SST crossover modules.

SST-MX Crossover

The SST-MX crossover module features 24-dB/octave Linkwitz-

Riley tuned filters and stereo sub-bass outputs for biamp op-

eration of subs. See Figure 5.1 for SST-MX block diagram.

Features of the SST-MX

crossover include:

Why Biamped?Why Biamped?

Why Biamped?

When you use one of Crown’s SST crossover modules to split the power

drive to your loudspeaker components, you gain a wide range of advan-

tages, including:

1. Increased gain because the insertion loss of passive crossover net-

works is eliminated.

2. Consistent power bandwidth: power bandwidth is changed in multi-

way passive systems if transducers change impedance or vaporize

(blow up).

3. Levels can be matched more accurately to the components.

4. Quicker troubleshooting.

5. Improved dynamic range.

6. Better protection of components due to steep 24-dB/octave filters.

Fig. 4.4 Unbalanced Input Wiring