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The spl meter worked like a charm !

In that case, IMO easiest thing to do is wire them up temporarily through the passive with the mid/tweeter roughly where you want them either velcro'd in place or propped up with a towel or something and listen to them. Then switch it over to active, run the dome without a lowpass and listen again and see what you think. Obviously it won't be perfect as the dome was probably not designed to be a true full range driver......but it will give you a quick-n-dirty difference. See what you think. If it doesn't sound awful to you without the tweeter, then you should be good to proceed with finding a suitable full range driver. Or PE has a Tymphany 2" full range driver for $9. So for $20 you could try it out compared to the 3-way just to see what you think of the differences. http://www.parts-express.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=299-249&ctab=1#Tabs

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Funkypup! Nah just playing. The Fi X 12's look pretty nice, although it goes over your budget just a tad. I'd look into them. Fi X Series

I also think the only big drawback is getting them on axis. I built about 10 sets of speakers when Adire was first building WR/FR 4.5" drivers (now CSS) and on axis they were pretty good. In fact, of the 6 or sets of the 2-ways I built with the WR drivers, if you covered the tweeter it didn't make w hole big difference on axis, but off axis, whoa... But I think this is to be expected really... I haven't played with the Tangband FRs yet, but I have used a ton of the HIVI B3Ns, and those sounded pretty damn good also... You still may need a crossover to tame some of the reponse irregularities of these little drivers, even though you are running them wide open... Check out what Zaph does for the B3N... B3N