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sorry, but I must tell you

You will not be hapi n oregon after trying to frankenstein a couple of very different speakers. With your lack of expertise and technical skills, it is probably impossible. It is difficult to get two or three drivers, designed to work together, to play well together in the same enclosure. It is even harder to get two stereo amplifiers to play different speakers in the same enclosure to play together. What you are attempting is even more difficult than that.

I suggest just disconnecting the high pass portion of the MMG's, which might give you an idea what it will sound like. If that's too technical, you could at the very least try playing all four speakers and physically muffling the mids/highs from the MMG's and the lows from the horn mouth. Crude, but simple.

You would be better off just getting better speakers if you don't like what you have, trying to combine the qualities you like about each pair. You could also put a sub with xover on the full-range. I just built a pair like that with Fostex FF165K in back-loaded horns and they sound pretty good with a small, cheap sub.

If you still want the challenge, 1K is much too high. Look at 250 - 350, where phase problems might be less offensive. The lower you cross, the easier it gets in some respects. Do at least a little research.

Pro active crossovers are mostly junk electronics and sound like it. Marchand makes decent xovers, or you could try to get someone to build one for you from a kit such as what ESP sells. The kit itself with parts and power supply would cost $150 or so, then another $150 for a basic enclosure and cheap connectors. Plus labor, and more if you want any fancy parts, which generally sound better, although that may get swamped by the fact that the combination could sound awful no matter what you do.

Peace,
Tom E
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