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recapping crossovers....do or don't?

I need some advice....I have recapped several pieces of my system with good results. But I am really hesitant to do so with my outboard crossovers on my speakers. The reason is they sound wonderful.....very coherent,musical,and image beautifuly. You ask why look for trouble....well the crossovers use MIT multicaps which I think are fine...but there are about 4 Solens also. Solens have a soso reputation and are not known as a really hi quality cap.

Do you think there is anything to gain here or am I playing with fire....BTW these speakers have Dynaudio drivers and are about 94-96db efficient.
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My Maggies have 22mfd in series with the tweeter. This is composed of 4 caps from 0.1mfd to 10mfd. Any harm in simply replacing with a single 22mfd unit of the appropriate voltage?

Maggies ALSO use Solens of about 5$ ea.
Is there any middle ground between these and 200$ Mundorfs?

The Clarity cap 'SA' would cost about 130$ for 2x22 and 2x25.
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