Crossover and Wiring Upgrade


Has anyone upgraded their Sonus Faber crossover, internal wiring, and binding post?  I'm a cable and amplifier believer as not all cables and amps sound the same.  Using that same mindset, I believe that upgrading the crossover and internal wiring would also yield positive results and keep in my speakers longer versus upgrading.

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Ii have been rebuilding loudspeaker Xovers for over 20 years 

Tony Gee  from  Humble homemade hifi capacitor test

have a cook book of each brands rankings and sound and is roughly 90% accurate 

many time he doe’s not not have time for them to fully open up 

higher voltage say 800 v or foil types normally take longer .

Newer Sonus  Faber use Mundorf Evo Aluminum oil caps   Which are decent but you can do much better  and get a big improvement , the resistors too absolutely

mundorf supreme are prettygood , Path Audio are my favorite andi use Jantzen waxed paper Copperfoil inductors , open coil is very good after theCopper foils awg 14 for me ideal ,,Jantzen Alumen Z aluminum foil  not too pricy and muchbetter then Anythung Sonus Faber uses just the caps and resistors alone a solid 10% upgrade better in every respect ,and these are Aluminum foil type 

inside youcan read theUF or size on the capacitors ,

theresistorstoo should show how many ohms ,ifyou can’t read them ,leave them the caps are by far most important , the loudspeakerterminals WBT next gen excellent value , and the flat on the inside made for crimping slide on. WBT or Furutech 

VH audio sells both ,highpurity Copper then gold plated ,much better conductivity 

then solderehich is mostly tin ,for caps use Cardas solder excellent sound and has flux rosin built in flows nice , Donot use a solder pen spend $100+ on a good-solder station