Replacing caps on crossovers?


Has anyone tried upgrading caps on their crossovers? Curious if they experienced any issues with changing the voicing of the speakers in a negative way? Thinking the speakers might be voiced based on lower quality components. 
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Showing 1 response by millercarbon

Swapping caps is easy. Depending on how good and carefully matched your existing caps are and how good the new cap is your results may range from disappointing to unbelievably impressive. Just no way to tell from the meager details provided.

In terms of voicing, tweaking the speakers tone or frequency response, swapping same value caps doesn't really affect this. Changing cap values changes crossover frequencies and will affect voicing. What most people want is what they already have only with less grain and glare and more refined detail. This you can usually get with higher quality caps without affecting the overall tonal balance of the speaker as long as you stay with the same value caps.