Andy Evans wrote:

...crossovers do alter the sound, and I'm not sure it's worth it in the end.

Do they? Leaving aside the question of inaccurate implementations,
I'm not convinced that any sensible crossover has an audible effect
on the sound. By sensible, I mean like a fourth order Linkwitz-Riley
where the outputs are in phase with each other at all frequencies and
the sum of the output voltages has the same frequency response as the
original. Of course, the phase is changed but ears don't respond to phase.

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Eiron.