New Heathkit AS101 owner - First post.

[voice of the theater]

Hi Alan,

Not mentioned yet is the flipping your drivers 180? to help relieve the downward stress of having sat that way for how ever many years.

Excellent suggestion--I've done that with all of my vintage Altecs--glad you thought to mention it!

Also, I noticed you have wired your L-Pad as a series resistor. Doing that will alter what your XO does. You'll want to correct that. Here is how:
https://www.google.ca/search?sourcei...iring+an+L-pad

And yes I know Altec does it that way also. For the life of me I can't ever sort out why. It makes no sense to have an L-Pad and not use it as one.

Alan, your crossovers/L Pads are currently wired the way Altec crossovers and the AS 101 crossover are designed to be wired. Keep in mind those crossovers are designed to work with your specific drivers and that re-wiring them as mentioned in the Google search will alter what your crossover was specifically designed to do. In other words, you wouldn't be "correcting" the wiring of your crossover by doing so, you'd instead be "altering" the design of your crossover. I personally wouldn't recommend doing so......

EDIT: In the interest of experimentation, IMHO there is no harm in trying out rewiring the L Pad to see what it sounds like. If you do decide to pursue this avenue, I would recommend rewiring one L-Pad and do an A/B comparison between the two speakers to see if the one with the original wiring scheme sounds/operates "better" or "worse" to your ears than the speaker with the re-wired L-Pad before deciding to re-wire both....