Crossover upgrade capacitor question


I was thinking of upgrading my capacitors on my outboard crossovers.The boards are large with a 1 ea. of 3,6, and 2 pieces of 8uF value caps.My question is the two 8uf are strapped together and look to solder in to the same trace can I use a 16uf in there place to save money?

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The safest path is to do a one to one replacement with original values of better quality. All audio designs are complex compromises and it is impossible to know when a change will effect the sound. I have read several postings in which the substution of unquestionably better parts of different values degraded the sound and the modifier eventually went back to the original values.