need help with L-pad for tweeter (long)

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I just replaced both of the Vifa tweeters on my 10-year old three-way speakers (one of the old ones died). I used the current Vifa version of the same tweeters. I broke them in for several days, but the overall sound of the speakers is still too bright. I suppose this is either because the spanking new tweeters don't match well with the old well-worn mids and woofers, or the new tweeters are slightly more efficient than the old ones.
Anyway, I wanted to fix this with an L-pad to attenuate 1 dB. I used a calculator to get appropriate resistor values. The thing is, I'm confused about how to compute what wattage the resistors should be able to handle.
I used the formula at http://lalena.com/audio/electronics/rcl/ The appropriate values are R1=0.65 ohm, R2=49.1 ohm, Rated Power of driver is 100 Watts. With these values in that equation W1= 1.3W and W2= 98.7W. How the heck do you get a resistor that can handle 98.7W ???
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks

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Topic - need help with L-pad for tweeter (long) - tcell 12:49:22 05/01/02 (4)

Re: need help with L-pad for tweeter (long) - Art J. 15:14:12 05/01/02 (3)

Re: need help with L-pad for tweeter (long) - Sparkie 22:31:13 05/01/02 (2)

sparkie - Art J. 05:56:05 05/02/02 (1)

Art - Sparkie 09:17:34 05/02/02 (0)

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