Padding driver outputs.

[Txgrizzly]

Guys,
i was given an old 1960's pair of pioneer speakers that i like the grills and woodwork on but the drivers and cross overs were rotted. i did not want to spend a lot of money and time on these so i bought some cross overs and drivers that meet my cross over requirements and size to fit in the holes of the cabinets. the problem is the mid driver is a little more efficient than the tweeter and woofer so i was wondering if i could just put a resistor in line of the positive side of the feed to the driver to drop the overall output of the driver. if i am right i know this will lower the entire freq range of the driver when its probably only a certain band that i am trying to reduce but i really don't want to get into building the perfect cross over for these...

I know, newbee questions but i still have a ton of learning to do... :T

[Face]

Why don't you just rebuild the original crossovers?

[Txgrizzly]

Face,
i looked at them and they are so old none of the components had any info on them. i was also not able to find any direct replacements for the old drivers so i had to buy modern ones which makes the original cross overs pretty much useless. the woofer was a 16ohm Woofer and the Squawker was 8ohms so i didn't think the original design would work with modern drivers.

[ThomasW]

Use an L-pad instead of a resistor.

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http://ccs.exl.info/calc_cr.html

[Txgrizzly]

Very cool link Thomas... thanks