BBE MAX-X3 2 Way Stereo or 3 Way Mono Crossover with Full Featured Sonic Maximizer

by BBE Sound

Product Features

• BBE Sonic Maximizer adds clarity and definition
• LED clip indicators for both High an Low outputs to alert of excessive output levels
• "x 10" range multiplier switch makes crossover-point adjustment easy
• Constant-Directivity Horn equalization provides progressive high-frequency boost required for these drivers
• 115dB of dynamic range-more than any other crossover in its class
• X 10 range multiplier switch makes crossover-point adjustment easy

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19 x 5.8 x 1.8 inches ; 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0006GSEMY
• Item model number: MAX-X3
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,601 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

The BBE® Max-X3™ is a highly sophisticated 2-way stereo/3-way mono crossover. Housed in a compact and easy-to-use package, it provides a variety of options for virtually all live sound reinforcement amplifier configurations. Max-X3's logical design makes it simple to understand and easy to use, and its sonic integrity promises clean, distortion free audio with a predictable, repeatable range of control. The Max-X3 makes state-ofthe-art crossover technology affordable, but this unit is much more than a high-quality, superbly engineered crossover. The Max-X3 is the first signal processor of its kind to feature an on-board BBE Sonic Maximizer. The BBE High Definition Sound process employed by the Sonic Maximizer is world renown among music and sound professionals for remarkable improvements in total sound quality, bringing crystalline clarity and air to the source material as well as revealing rich harmonic subtleties. The Max-X3 employs BBE's latest High Definition Sound technology, in the very same 4th Generation BBE Professional chipset which powers the BBE 482i and 882i Sonic Maximizers. The Max-X3 employs state-variable 4th-order Linkwitz-Riley filters. This filter design minimizes phase inaccuracies in the critical crossover region and ensures the output at all frequencies remains in-phase, which is critical for the accurate summing of each driver in a speaker stack. The Linkwitz-Riley filter design has a very steep 24dB/octave slope, which ensures that each driver designed to reproduce a specific frequency range is not driven beyond its limits. The “over-engineering” in the Max-X3 ensures excellent sonic performance, with all the features demanded in a true professional product. By offering a superb, full-featured 2-way stereo/ 3-way mono crossover with an integrated BBE Sonic Maximizer system, the Max-X3 has no equal at any price.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great deal for the $$, July 13, 2010

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Buyer "ZakSwi" (pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BBE MAX-X3 2 Way Stereo or 3 Way Mono Crossover with Full Featured Sonic Maximizer (Electronics)

Im using this with a MAckie 808S head with a mod to the board so I can route the preamp signals out thru effects b4 entering the power section. I ran this in MONO mode and broke out the sub signal to some amps and bass bins-then the regular signal back into the 808. It worked GREAT!

for the price its a steal, the Sonic Maximizer portion is good for the main mix but almost not noticable in the lows which is fine.

I reccomend this for outside the studio in live situations-not sure how the noise is in a studio situation as the maximizers tend to have a noisegate to release on a note then you hear the hiss-not noticeable in a live mix though.

4.0 out of 5 stars Live-used x-over, December 21, 2010

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Madmallard (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BBE MAX-X3 2 Way Stereo or 3 Way Mono Crossover with Full Featured Sonic Maximizer (Electronics)

This was purchased to be used as a reliable analog stereo crossover in live applications. I use this to seperate the subwoofer signals from the top signals before I connect to 2 amplifiers in stereo.

If you didn't know, BBE produces various pro-audio components, but in almost all of them they add an insert for their 'BBE sound maximising DSP.' If you buy anything, including this, you generally also get the option of their BBE processing which has the most dramatic effect on sounds/music 4khz and up. You may be familiar with the effect it has if your television has a BBE chip in it (including some Sony, JVC, Panasonic...)

Even if you don't need that effect, this is a pretty stout 2/3 crossover, imo. Thick faceplate, chunky knobs...Mine is red, but they're made with black plates now. Been using on the road for about 3 years now, no problems.