Cornwall IV V-Cap ODAM and Path Audio resistor modification

For me, the mods took everything good about the stock CW4 and made it better. More refined, less strident, better tonality, greater palpability, just about everything I wanted with no downside. But that’s me. I also swapped in WBT NextGen binding posts and damped the horns, woofer baskets, and ports with Dynamat Xtreme, so there’s that, too; and I put each speaker on Herbie’s Giant Gliders, which tightened up the bottom and made them easy to slide into the closet.  I’ll add that had I not done the mods, I likely would not have kept them. I found them OK stock but a bit aggressive and ragged to my ears, not quite high-end enough relative to my other speaker/amp combos. Now I’m happily pairing them with a Luxman MQ-300 and a couple turntables. But again, my ears, my taste.

@ephan , I see you’re new here. Welcome. FYI. If you type @ followed by the userid of a member, as I did just now for you, it alerts that user. I just saw that you asked me this question in an old CW4 threat, but I was not aware.

@ephan , If you like the sound of stock CW4, I don’t think you’d be disappointed. I can’t really imagine why anyone would prefer the stock to ones with the Sachs mods. I went a bit beyond those but the meat of the upgrade is in the superb caps and resistors. Still, it is unnerving to open a new speaker and wreck its warranty, I get it. And while it’s not very hard to do, you still have to trust yourself to do it right. But for me it proved to be well worth the risk.