Speaker brands known to use first class internal components

joenies138 posts09-10-2021 5:19pmA number of years ago I had my B&W 801 speakers re-wired with Kimber cable and had the protective circuit modified. I asked my technician to replace any components on the cross-overs. He said he could not buy anything better than what was already being used.

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I believe your tech geek, Not EVEN the very finest crossover components can help out the B&W **House Sound**. 
Again proof the midwoofer/tweeter thingy is a failure.
Wilson's suffer same house sound issues as B& W, Vandersteen's. 

"I would hate to buy a pair of speakers that I absolutely love and are totally worth the money to me based on their sound and look, but I'd be devastated if I found out the internal parts weren't high quality."

Ugh.

I didn't see this quote anywhere and I know it's not anything close to what I said. But in a way I agree with you. If I bought a 2 million dollar Bugatti and found out it had Bangladeshi built electronics, fuel injection and stability control, as long as it went real fast the day I bought it I would still feel like I got my money's worth

Ugh

Many years ago I recall seeing a picture of Kef's Reference 5 speaker that was cut open, and the crossover was gigantic and expensive looking.  This made me feel better about the Reference 1 speakers that I purchased.

After buying brand new Millenium Tweeters/Seas, as suggested by Tech geek, as 1 tweet had lost 1/2 a  ohm vs  the other = $750 + all brand new highest quality Mundorf Caps, = $$$$$$$
Both together over $1500++
Thought the Seas Thors would be transformed into a  Super Thor...
hahahaa.
absolute waste of money,,, so I trashed that experiement,, started experienting with wide bands.. 
And Bingo
Super Midrange, =cost $550.
There is no Seas/Scaspeak driver that can touch the Wide Band's in my system. 
Seems no one is listening to my mantra. 
You guys are really stuck on a  speaker merry-go-round.
The midwoofer/tweeter thing is not going to match a  high quality wide band. 
Us wide banders know what we have and we could never go back to midwoofer/tweeter as midrange.
For bass, midwoofers are great, For highs, tweets are OK, but not midrange. 
~~~Only as  supports~~~I have excellent bass and highs in the WBer, I use midwoofers and tweets only as ~~emblishments, nothing more. 
On their own they are crippled.The midrange suffers terrible lack of musicality. 
No matter how high priced xover caps you invest. 

hardly a merry go round, you have bought more speakers in the past month than i have in 4 years…..

Gear changer…..

Stick to Mozart