New Heathkit AS101 owner - First post.

[Altec Best]

It matters more how the speakers play the room. If you take the same system and move it from room to room, I'm sure you will get very different frequency curves and a very different sound.

Yes so very true. And that is where the use of L-pads come in.They help you tune the speaker sound to the room.But the most important part IMO&E is your measurements will help you to build a perfect crossover for your particular speakers.With your measurements and impedance plots and T/S parameters of your speakers, if you have them ? You can build a spot on crossover instead of using a universal crossover like an 500 Hz,800 Hz,1200 Hz,etc, Crossover..

[Old Guy]

I'm of the school crossovers are as important as drivers...

[GM]

I'm of the school crossovers are as important as drivers...

More so actually, along with cab design/construction since some of the world's most expensive, best reviewed super-fi speakers use inexpensive, 'plain vanilla' drivers available to the DIYer except with their markings to garner exorbitant replacement parts pricing. Up to a point then, thanks to our typical hearing acuity not being all that good combined with our penchant for preferring most things 'rich', be it visual, taste, feel, hear, we can be fooled into believing you really can make a 'silk purse out of a sow's ear'.

GM

[alancohen]

I'm of the school crossovers are as important as drivers...

Now here's a good point. Ultimately, I will be using a Behringer DCX2496 active crossover and biamping.

Those little black boxes on top of my Heathkit in the previous pic are (8) 300B tubes. I'm patiently waiting for the kits to start building (2) 300B OTL monoblocks to drive the horns.

So realistically, I will not have any components in between the 300B cathodes and the 802G drivers. No output transformers, capacitors, inductors or resistors. Mmmm...