New Heathkit AS101 owner - First post.

[voice of the theater]

I think it needed some messing with, Ron...at least for my taste. The mids are so out in front, the lower frequencies lagged. I added the wood on the bottom of the horn and then put a few pieces of closed-cell foam on either side of the horn leaving about 14sqin per speaker of port. It seems to have helped the bottom end catch up quite a bit. Bass drums are punchier and bass guitar licks are bouncier. The foam might be narrowing the horn dispersion, but it seems to sound great.

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Nice--sounds like you're making good progress/moving in the right direction!

So, I'm replacing the caps. Got one done and just removed the other.

I noticed one thing that might be an issue with the "speaker of lower volume". That is the one that has the replaced 8-Ohm cap. Well I guess the previous owner figured 16-Ohms was close enough.

Oh, and one more little problem. It seems like the two of the caps were run to ground inadvertently.

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That's the problem with buying used "kits" (I've bought several used dynakits etc.). Often times you have to go through them and fix "iffy" solder connections. I think whoever assembled your crossover should have his soldering license revoked! BTW, do the two speakers sound (more) identical now that you've fixed the solder problems/replaced the caps? Have you cleaned the pots (with deoxit?) yet? Looking forward to your impressions once the tuning mods and crossover restoration/upgrades are complete. From your recent posts it sounds to me like they're really starting to sound great......