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The line level crossovers have some advantaged: they loaded into higher impedance and therefore the values of caps are smaller. Also the line level crossovers loaded against fix impedance, contrary to the speaker level and this allow writing a very exact curve with very exact Q. Also the passive crossover; low passes do not talk with the inductance of the bass drivers. There are some other advantages… Still there is nothing wrong with properly implemented speaker-level crossovers and the line-level crossovers should not be considered as some kind of amassing benefit. I personally prefer to think about crossovers not as functional entries but rather as notes in a large musical score. Wherever you place them and however you impellent they will affect sound in one way or another. All together the playback should sound properly regardless what the crossovers used. The fine-tuning of crossover performance in multi-channels is a delicate and creative process, sometimes it has little technical merits and juts follow the exoteric rules of subjective perception.

Here is the rule that I sumized for myself: Badly done crossovers are fixing or masking some problem of playback. Properly done crossovers embrace positive aspects of installation. Do not think about crossovers as a masking tape but rather as a binocular….

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