Help with V-Cap ODAM directionality in crossover

Yup good idea I haven’t seen resistor placed so high before off a crossover board before is why I asked. I’ve been modifying crossover for years with great results and all the research I’ve done this is the first time I’ve seen it is why I asked.

How did your upgrade turn out? Most interested.  Yes, the caps will take some. 120-200 hours to be 90% burned in. They open up a lot in just 30 hours. 

@tecknik @grannyring Sorry for the late reply! Yes, the install turned out great and went off without a hitch. Thanks so much to Bill for all his help!

Yes, I did replace the stock sandcast resistors with Vishay/Mills and they are in fact mounted quite high both on purpose and a novice move. ha ha. Bill recommended mounting off the board a bit for heat dissipation and I knew these were probably a little too high but the width of the mounting holes and the size of the resistors were putting some stress on the leads and so I left them a bit high. Could have shaped them a little with some bends using pliers but I didn't want to eff them up.

As you can see I installed the ODAM's and applied some damping to the caps and replaced with wiring with solid PE/copper. I also upgraded the binding posts from the stock brass to rhodium plated pure copper. I also wired the boards to one set of posts and am not using the extra set of posts for biwiring because I don't biwire.

Sounds amazing! I put some ODAM's in my tube preamp a few months ago and recalled the long and roller coaster break in and knew what I was in store for and sure enough I went through it again. But once I got through, wow, so incredible sounding caps. I had swapped out the resistors first a few weeks before the caps and even that alone made a really noticeable difference! A big thanks again to Bill, who I think I was driving nuts with all of the questions I had. Thank you!

Nice!

I have found that quality resistors, caps and inductors are well worth it. 

Next think for you to consider is replacing the inductors with foil inductors. I think this is less important than resistors and caps, particularly since you already have fairly heavy gauge air core inductors, but it's worth considering. 

Thanks! I was considering the inductors as well but you are right the stock inductors are surprisingly robust and Bill thought it might not be needed. I do think foil inductors would be really interesting. I think Usher must use these boards on several of their models as you can see they have allotted space for larger inductors so I do have the room. These boards btw are really nice as well, they are double thick and practically the entire board was a copper plinth with divisions between each section.