Modifying Crossovers

I apologize to the audiophile gods.   Nobody can know more than someone who has hung up a shingle and become an OEM.

You can make a high end speaker sound better with better capacitors and resistors, but you have to experiment with different brand caps and resistors, before you figure out what brand will sound better than the ones the speakers came with.

@invalid Look at my photo above and there are some very good suggestions.

While many upgrade the capacitors, and resistors aren’t expensive to upgrade, inductors are often neglected, that is, not upgraded to a level consistent with the capacitors, where most put their money. I went with hand wound beeswax foil inductors.

I kept all the same values as the OEM designer, who is excellent.

Jerry

thanks for the feedback. I think it is interesting that an $11k speaker needs modification. 

@falmgren you really think they used the best crossover parts that the could have for $11k? Did they use all silver wire in them?  They may also use lower quality crossover parts because of availability.