We always maintain that the crossover is the heart of the speaker system, and the Kontra crossover goes further in using complex response shaping to deliver accurate, neutral and uncolored frequency response throughout its bandwidth.
The baffle step response problem causes a diffraction effect that raises the frequency response of a speaker typically starting between 500-700Hz. This causes a thinning of the sound at these frequencies and results in a frequency response that makes the sound bright, thin and fatiguing. This also results in an apparent lack of bass in the system and many of these speakers have to be placed near a wall to overcome this problem. Complex response shaping calculates the rise of this parameter due to the baffle step and accurately corrects this problem, for a smooth, flat midrange response, on or off the wall.

We always maintain that the crossover is the heart of the speaker system, and the Kontra crossover goes further in using complex response shaping to deliver accurate, neutral and uncolored frequency response throughout its bandwidth.
The baffle step response problem causes a diffraction effect that raises the frequency response of a speaker typically starting between 500-700Hz. This causes a thinning of the sound at these frequencies and results in a frequency response that makes the sound bright, thin and fatiguing. This also results in an apparent lack of bass in the system and many of these speakers have to be placed near a wall to overcome this problem. Complex response shaping calculates the rise of this parameter due to the baffle step and accurately corrects this problem, for a smooth, flat midrange response, on or off the wall.