Any one ever replace caps or modify there Xovers


Im upgrading the caps in my B&W 802's series 3 hoping to get more transparency , air , soundstage and bass tightness. Overall better performance similar to the Nautilus 802. Any suggestions or input is most appreciated.
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Showing 1 response by jeffreybehr

There probably are dozens of us who have replaced x-over parts; I've done it to maybe a dozen speakers.

General advice is to replace lo-quality parts with hi-quality ones, but that advice is as useless as your question is general. Get to the x-overs, trace schematics, etc. Then we can help.

And we'd need a budget, too, as there's little sense to recommend you buy $300 of parts if you've have more like $100 in mind. BTW, $100 might be a good budget for the tweeter caps. My tweeter filters have about a grand worth of Teflon-film caps in them, but no one ever called me sensible. :-)