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    Has anyone had positive experience with using Crossfeed devices for speakers instead of headphones? The Taket Sound Activator device appears to be a crossfeed control unit and I am wondering if there are any DIYers on the forum who has built such a unit. The Taket is 150 GBP so I am looking for a cheaper alternative as an experiment to see whether crossfeeding is worthwhile for speakers. Witchdoctor.nz has a positive review of the Taket SA.

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    There was a thread on Rock Grotto forum some years ago about a DIY Meier crossfeed for headphones. I bought a pcb to make one and never got around to it. I understand that this is a passive unit that you plugged your headphones into and then into a head amp. I assume that for speakers it would require an active unit to process the incoming signal rather than it being placed between speakers and amp?
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    the taket SA device is passive and connects to the + terminals of the speaker outputs (L and R channel)

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    Not sure why somebody would wish to compromise stereo imaging.

    I did experiment years ago with a version of the Hafler speaker 'ambient' circuit that uses a centre speaker with an 'L' pad, fed from both left and right + outputs from the amp. This achieves the same end. Results made me decide it was not worth bothering.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
    I understand that this is a passive unit that you plugged your headphones into and then into a head amp.
    I think you mean a headphone amp. A head amp is preamp which is (usually) placed close to the transducer it's amplifying, such as inside a condenser microphone. In a hi-fi context the term head amp usually refers to a preamp for LOMCs, placed between the cartridge and phonostage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RothwellAudio View Post
    I think you mean a headphone amp. A head amp is preamp which is (usually) placed close to the transducer it's amplifying, such as inside a condenser microphone. In a hi-fi context the term head amp usually refers to a preamp for LOMCs, placed between the cartridge and phonostage.
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