Siegfried Meier said:
Yes, I'm talking about the analog FDS360 -
Those old BSS units had that much of a bad reputation eh? Well, one of the units sounds "good". The other...not so much.
Well, the FDS-360 was a great cross-over but it has got a lot of problems of "cold" solder when it gets old... As the society where I was repairman had a lot of them, I remember that they drive me mad with difficult to find problems. But the use was PA
utdoor, indoor, vibrations, moisture, sand and dust, temperature too cold or too hot, too muscular roadies... All the kind of thing you don't find in a studio use...
I'm looking around too for an active crossover for my studio custom cabs without spending too much... I also thinked about the DBX 260 as it has got some interresting features. I bet it is quite simple to use according to the manual. Maybe there's somewhere around your place where you can pick one and test it. It can be a good exchange if the converters are good. 48kHz isn't that bad to drive monitors where the higher frequency is for sure 20kHz.
BTW, maybe you could give a try to the Behringer DCX2496... Oups, I named it :-[ ! Audiophiles seam to like that unit and there's lot of DIY improvements on the web. The DSP used in it is a good and serious one, the ADC and DAC too so this is an option but, shut up, you must hide it to the customers eyes
!!! But seriously, Behringer never prove me their stuff was build to rest, so if you choose this option, you'd better buy a spare one just in case... As it isn't expensive this is a real option too.
BSS FDS-336 are the pro one, reliable, but they maybe have the same problem than the FDS-366 which have a fan becoming noisy when it gets old.
XTA 226 are superb crossovers, really expensive (around the BBS FDS-366 price) but I don't know if they build some for the US market (I can't say they have some with a 110 volt PSU :-\.)
LAKE Contour are top crossovers but price is killing and they are really too much everything for your use.