Hi,

as a hi-fi owner with some background knowledge of physics but no idea of
speaker or crossover design, I wonder if someone could help me out with this
simple question.

in a typical 2 way speaker, the bass driver dissipates many times as much
power as the tweeter. however, the nominal impedance of the two drivers is
often similar. if the voltage across the two is the same and the impedance
is the same, how does the bass driver draw so much more power than the
tweeter?

I realise this is a gross simplification of the actual design of a speaker.
Is it the crossover that increases the impedance as seen by the amplifier?
or am I totally missing something

Andy