They were all wired up kinda funny. There were three drivers in the speaker, and the speaker is an 8 Ohm speaker (no clue what the drivers are though), and all I can remember is that the was a resistor and capacitor in series, not wired like a typical RC filter, and there were 2 inputs and two outputs on the woofer. I believe that the resistors and everything did go up to the tweeter and midrange, but I still think that in a 100 watt speaker, there would be more than 5 watts going to the tweeter and midrange, and even if so, why wouldn't they have any sort of a filter going to the woofer?

 

My "math" is just a rough guess. Another key thing to remember is that music is far from DC, , the waveforms involved constantly vary from occasionally high peaks to 0 current.

You also have to remember that a speaker's impedance is arbitrarily quoted somewhere near the low end of its response curve, it goes up with frequency due to the inductive nature of the voice coils.

 

why wouldn't they have any sort of a filter going to the woofer?

Except in very high-end speakers the woofer is often left to fend for itself, due to its size it naturally rolls off in response.

 

Interesting, I never knew that, but it definitely makes sense. I had always wondered how my woofer only seemed to play bass, I thought maybe it had some sort for internal circuit.I don't know, how, but that is what I had though, I never thought about the fact that the sheer size can make that big of a contribution.