Xover parts quality,/sound difference?

I have upgraded the caps, resistors and air core inductors on all three pairs of my Klipsch speakers and can tell you for a fact that I HEARD a tremendous difference in sound. I replaced the stock caps with Kimber Kaps, stock resistors with Mills non-inductive resistors, and stock air core inductors with Madisound.

I lived with all these speakers stock for about 5 years, so I was very familiar with the sound. What I heard after I upgraded the crossovers was nothing short of amazing. Trust me, I wasn't TRYING to hear something either to justofy the less than $100 in parts cost.

Bottom line: better parts do make a difference.

Sean,

Spoken like a true veteran! The things you've mentioned like horn dampening, sealing the cabinets, stuffing material, etc. are things I need to do. I was so impressed with the results of just upgrading the parts that I stopped with the speaker mods and decided to mod my CDP with better caps, diodes, internal silver wire, easy power supply tweak, and chasis dampening.

CDP mod results were even more impressive! Now I want to do the same to all my gear!

Thanks for always having great advice & ideas and sharing them.

Undertow,

You bring up a really good point about the sensitivity of the speaker and it's relationship to responding to crossover upgrades. A great perspective I didn't think about, probably because I haven't yet upgrade any speaker crossover networks that have a low sensitivity.

Mike