Passive crossover calculator and simulator: real impedance, phase, parts list.
Crossmith designs passive speaker crossovers the way the desktop tools do, on your phone. Textbook
calculators assume every driver is a plain resistor; Crossmith solves every capacitor, coil and
resistor against each driver's real impedance and shows what the speaker will actually do. Every
feature is free: no subscription, no account, works offline.
SIMULATION, NOT JUST FORMULAS
- Summed response with phase: each driver's output through its network, added with polarity, driver
depth and height, at your listening distance
- Impedance the amplifier sees, phase, group delay
- Baffle step from your baffle width
- Tolerance band: what 5 % capacitors and 2 % coils do to your build
- Crossover point, phase match, flatness, lowest impedance and warnings in plain words
DESIGN IN MINUTES
- 1-way, 2-way, 2.5-way and 3-way projects
- Butterworth, Linkwitz-Riley, Bessel or your own Q, 1st to 4th order (6 to 24 dB/oct)
- Values designed into each driver's impedance at the crossover, not a nominal 8 ohms
- Suggested crossover range from the drivers' limits
- Zobel, resonance trap, L-pad and baffle-step networks in one tap
- The tweeter is aligned automatically: polarity and a small stagger chosen for the flattest sum
TUNE IT LIKE ON THE BENCH
- Every network drawn as a schematic, from the amplifier to the driver
- Tap a part, type a value (4,7 uF, 0.62 mH, 3.3 ohm) or drag its slider and watch the response move
- Any impedance, decimals too: 3.2, 5.5, 16 ohm, whatever your drivers are
- Coil resistance (DCR) included
YOUR DRIVERS
- Start from data-sheet parameters (Re, Le, Fs, Qms, Qes, Vas, box)
- Import FRD and ZMA measurements from REW, ARTA or a graph tracer; minimum phase rebuilt when needed
BUILD IT
- Parts list with standard values (E12 / E24) and the best parallel pairs
- Resistor wattage and capacitor voltage for your amplifier power
- Build sheet as a PDF, parts list as CSV
ALSO
- Calculators: crossover values, Zobel, resonance trap, L-pad, baffle step, standard values
- Light and dark themes, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian
- Backup and restore to a file
- Ads are kept off the editor; one optional purchase removes them
Made by Fernhart Labs, makers of Boxsmith (subwoofer box design).