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<blockquote data-quote="GSteg" data-source="post: 1238507" data-attributes="member: 543107">An EQ will barely help, well it&#039;s just not powerful enough. Essentially, a crossover and an equalizer functions the same way. They can attenuate the frequencies lower. An EQ (graphic) will only attentuate a frequency with a fixed Q factor. A parametric equalizer would work better since you can use a wide Q factor, but you will also be attenuating the same frequency the mids are producing (areas of overlapping), so it&#039;ll sound funny or you might even notice a spectrum of sound missing.The problem is that the tweeters are playing at a lower frequency than they should. It doesn&#039;t help that crossing lower will also allow the tweeter to play closer to it&#039;s resonating frequency.You most certainly may be able to change the crossover network to raise the crossover point, but make sure you know what you&#039;re doing otherwise I hate you see a passive crossover being thrown away. You can also change tweeters, but find a set of tweeters that are the same impedance that can handle the lower crossover point. Or find a set of tweeters of different impedance so that when you hook it up with the current passive crossover, the crossover point will be right where you want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GSteg, post: 1238507, member: 543107"] An EQ will barely help, well it's just not powerful enough. Essentially, a crossover and an equalizer functions the same way. They can attenuate the frequencies lower. An EQ (graphic) will only attentuate a frequency with a fixed Q factor. A parametric equalizer would work better since you can use a wide Q factor, but you will also be attenuating the same frequency the mids are producing (areas of overlapping), so it'll sound funny or you might even notice a spectrum of sound missing. The problem is that the tweeters are playing at a lower frequency than they should. It doesn't help that crossing lower will also allow the tweeter to play closer to it's resonating frequency. You most certainly may be able to change the crossover network to raise the crossover point, but make sure you know what you're doing otherwise I hate you see a passive crossover being thrown away. You can also change tweeters, but find a set of tweeters that are the same impedance that can handle the lower crossover point. Or find a set of tweeters of different impedance so that when you hook it up with the current passive crossover, the crossover point will be right where you want. [/QUOTE]

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