My first impression of how they sounded were very good. I was very pleased with the amount of bass the aluminum woofers were putting out. We're not talking subwoofer bass here by any means but considering only using a 5-1/4" woofer, it was very well respectable. To help break the drivers in, I set my satellite dish to a channel that plays only music. After letting them play for about 24 hours on the music channel, I actually started to notice slight changes in the sound. The tweeters seemed to have a smoother sound while the bass from the woofers sounded deeper/cleaner. To get a feel for how the speakers reacted to various types of music, I spent a few hours listening to a variety of CD's. After hours of listening and while I thought the overall sound was great, I still thought the tweeters sounded perhaps just a tad to laid back. I removed the baffles and temporally replaced the 3.3ohm resistor in the L-pad with a 2.7ohm. I then spent a few more hours listening to see if it made a difference and it did. It seemed to give the speakers a completely different sound with things such as symbols and female voices sounding more alive.

The end result? I ended up using the 2.7ohm resistor in the L-pad since it made the speakers, in my opinion, sound the best. They seem to work good with all different types of music and provide really good imaging. If anyone wants to build these speakers I would suggest experimenting with a few extra different valued resistors in the L-pad. Listen to the original L-pad setup first for awhile before making a decision to make any tweaks. These aren't the loudest speakers you will ever hear but I didn't mind since they were going to be used in a small room and for mainly background sound. This was a fun project to build and I'm more than happy with the way they turned out. The 3/4" aluminum accent strips really highlight the aluminum woofer cones and since this was such an important part in the design, I decided not to use grills.

Thanks
First, I wanted to thank Parts Express for providing such excellent customer service. With out the quality products they sell and the "tech talk forum" they provide, I probably would never be in this hobby.

Second, I want to thank everyone I talk to in the forum. I greatly appreciate everyone's opinions, ideas, guidance and comments. And one more time...thanks again Curt for the crossover.

Last but not least, I wanted to thank my wife for putting up with this hobby of mine. No matter how many boxes of parts I get from PE...no matter how many times she hears the same song over and over while I do crossover testing...and no matter how many tools are laying on the living room floor....she still somehow smiles.