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first thing to do is to identify the resonant frequencies you hear. There are different ways to do that. With that particular speaker, I have a feeling that the anomaly you are hearing is higher than what the port is doing. Just a feeling.

Snarl, you won't need much to drive the tweeters. But if you find yourself in a situation with a 100 watt amp on the tweeters, you won't have to level it out. You'll just have a lot of headroom.
Find some guy in your neighborhood bi-amping live shows. He'll get you through this.

[It's amazing how our brain fills in certain pieces of data based on our expectations of what should be there.]

That is it, B3groover! That's the reason I'm able to contently finish something I've started.

the weird thing I don't get, and don't even try to explain it to me, is what happens at the very end: a stack of zeros and ones, 24 high, get turned into a spark of electricity that either pulls or pushes a voice coil against a cone for 1/44100 of a second. Blows my mind.

to answer the original question "What drivers?", I chose a Morel design from the award winning Merlin; the woofer could be used in a small sealed or ported cabinet and I like the 6db/ of a sealed box. The power amps and crossover were just laying around here, so I bi-amped. Morel, ScanSpeak, Seas, D...

crossover is DBX 233, ancient. $69 on ebay. I can always change it. There's a hump right on either side on the 24db/ xover point no matter where I place it; I just accept it and "listen" around it.
Total drivers less than $300. Cabinet material was free. I saved about $1900 by doing this.

I've heard that peerless/peerless spkr like digdoug's and yes they slay. I bought those tweeters and was going to build around them til I discovered mine were bogus copies and my ears were telling me the truth. So, I went with Morel drivers. Sealed Box. Bi-amped. No regret. I've read so many posts w...

First thing I did in building my studio was building monitors. Mine are based on Merlin Music Systems' TSM and they are biamped, no passive crossover. No going back.

I can hear the air through which the stick passes on its way to the timbale hit and I'm not kidding.