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  1. Good point! Thread was very helpful and useful at least most of the posts. For example I recently purchased pair of older Klipsch Ref IV RF62 125W and the high/tweeter is much more brighter compared to midrange and bass. When listening on higher levels very quicky sound becomes unpleasant and uncomfortable and I'm listening all kinds of music. All the time horn was overpowering everything else and my listening distance is about 3 meters away. Sense I don't and can't use the equalizer I try remove the back spikes to "angle" the speakers little bit back which help to some degree. In the end I placed a "toilet" paper over the horn and place the cover grill to hold it in the place. Only that I hit the sweet spot so that can enjoy my speakers and not get the horn "in my face" sort to speak. Then I decided to go steep further and I wanted to measure my speakers frequency using with calibrated microphone and I order the microphone(UMIK 1) which will be delivered soon. I start to investigate crossovers and what necessary parts and software I need to create new crossover or mod the tweeter circuit, whatever helps. Then I found this thread and discover L pads which I had no idea that they existed! What a relief. Immediately I order the 8 ohm one from a online store and I got them today. I took out the crossover and using the alligator clips I quickly connected and test the L pad. I connected it after crossover output and the tweeter. The L-pad worked! I was able to lower the output of the horn almost all the way down and all the way up. Fantastic! I will install the L-pad on the back speaker panel for easy access/adjusting and sense I'm planing to keep the speakers dring a hole is not a problem but... The only thing that I'm wondering now is: Did my L-pads are powerful enough? As I got the 15W RMS/30W peak ones. I took a horn out and the magnet are not that small. It looks quite big actually to my surprise. On other hand 15W RMS only on the higer frequency after the crossover should in theory be enough... I would like that someone with more knowledge and experience can back me up how many watts the horn can actually pull... Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Wish you all great day! P.S. I have installed the L-pads few days ago and I like them alot. What a difference! Now I'm able to lower the horn pretty much completely down and up. I found that middle position is my preference for now. Now the sound is much more balanced and no more fatigue when listening at higher levels. I highly recommend L-pads from now to anyone. Much easier to tune up your speakers. Here is the image of the L-pads. My UMIK-1 microphone show up in Friday. I took some speaker measurements with REW. If someone is interested I can send some screenshots of measurements with L-PAD set to Max, middle and min.
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