The best way is to use a graphic equalizer between the preamp and the power
amp. If you have a tape monitor section of your receiver or amplifier you
are not using, you can insert a graphic equalizer unit between them.

Or, you can get inside of the speaker box, and wire a standard L-Pad (pot
designed to adjust speaker level) between the tweeter and the crossover
output. You can then mount the L-Pad on the rear of the box. This will
allow you to control the output to the tweeter to match your taste. There
are speaker boxes on the market that have built in EQ pots to adjust the
highs, and even the mids.

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"Andy Fish" wrote in message
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Hi,

as a hi-fi owner with some background knowledge of physics but no idea of
speaker or crossover design, I wonder if someone could help me out with this
simple question.

in a typical 2 way speaker, the bass driver dissipates many times as much
power as the tweeter. however, the nominal impedance of the two drivers is
often similar. if the voltage across the two is the same and the impedance
is the same, how does the bass driver draw so much more power than the
tweeter?

I realise this is a gross simplification of the actual design of a speaker.
Is it the crossover that increases the impedance as seen by the amplifier?
or am I totally missing something

Andy