So Wayne, what I wanted to know was, if 3.3uF is crazy too much and .47 is just right for the 1k6a012dB, where does that leave the 2.2 that is spec'd for C1 on the 800a009dB? Does this thing that causes a capacitor to be 1000 times less resistive at 20,000Hz than 20 Hz have something to do with it?

The thing is, Altec 811 horns are not CD. They have collapsing directivity which provides some acoustic EQ on axis. Because of this, you don't want as much rising response from the tweeter circuit. You'll need the level matching, but not nearly as much top-octave compensation. They can use a little, just not as much. So capacitor C1 should be smaller when using Altec 811 horns. I probably wouldn't even install it.

Something else worth noting is the larger you make C1, the less the R1/R2 voltage divider does its job. What we want is for the attenuation circuit to lower the midrange band and then as frequency gets higher, the bypass capacitor acts to allow more and more energy to couple across unattenuated. So if you make C1 too large, it couples energy at a low enough frequency that the attenuator is completely bypassed. That's not what you want.

For example, let's consider a CD horn crossed over at 800Hz needing 10dB attenuation. This attenuation can be gradually remove at high frequency to compensate for mass rolloff. You want a capacitor that begins to bypass at 3kHz to 4kHz, no lower. But if the capacitor is made so large that it begins to bypass at say 400Hz, then you can see how the whole compensation network is defeated. You might as well hook the tweeter up directly, without any compensation circuitry at all, because the circuitry is effectively shorted by the overvalued C1 capacitor anyway.