To much high


This weekend I traded my B&W CDM1's for a pair of beautifully finished home-made speakers, comprising a Morel tweeter, Seas (aluminium) mid/low and Seas woofer in a tall housing. I listened to them on a tube amp in a heavily furnished room, and they sounded awesome. Back home (you guessed it....) I connected them to my transistor amp, in a rather hard-sounding room. The low and mid is everything I ever dreamed of, but the top-end is driving me nuts. Since I don't have the cash to change my amp I'm thinking of changing my (silver) speaker cable, or, as some sort of last resort, placing a resistor before the tweeter. Any (other) suggestions?
satch

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Guys, thanx for the advice, I will experiment with placement and some absorbing materials. And Didactically, being an ex-radio engineer, I know how original sounds, and I know these speakers are a bit bright. But because I fell in love with their potential I'll try to squeeze out every last drop that's in them.
Jeffreybehr, if I would use a resistor to reduce tweeter output (say, 1 ohm - 5 watts), wouldn't the best place be in the '+'-cable between cross-over and tweeter? I don't know, that just seemed the most logical place, but I might be wrong here, so any advice would be appreciated. And then: is it possible to get to high? :) But you're right, I probably meant 'too much high', but since I'm from Holland I tend to mess up things like that......
Hah! Friends only cost money, dropping by at random, emptying the fridge, so losing one is only a good thing :). Seriously, I chose the cable since it went well with my old speakers, and I do have some old pieces lying around, so that's one experiment that's on my list....