thanks Richard I will be back - John pointed me to some books and I will see what I come up with cheers Ruben >> >> Ruben > > The impedance of a loudspeaker is not its DC resistance > and can not be measured with an ohm meter. > Some of the drivers you have were intended to be used in > specific systems. Its possible to use them in a home built > box but for an optimum box you have to make a lot of > measurements on them. Small low frequency speakers such as > those used by KEF, B&O, and B&W are intended to be used in > rather small boxes of the sort I mentioned earlier where the > box stiffness becomes part of the restoring force of the > speaker. Cerwin-Vega built mainly high power speakers for > sound re-inforcement or musical instrument use. JBL has made > an enormous number of models over the years some of which > are specific to JBL systems and some of which are general > purpose speakers. I am not familiar with Pearless. > I am enough out of touch with audio that I don't know of > a book currently in print that covers crossover networks but > most of the older books on audio did. Simple networks work > fine. I may be able to give you specific help off list. > > --- > Richard Knoppow > Los Angeles, CA, USA > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >