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Is it good to upgrade the crossovers in your speakers?

A confessed audiophile, threw this Forum I have contracted “Tweakitus”.
QSA fuses, SRA Platforms, Townshend Podiums, NPS Q45T, ad nauseam.

The latest bug in my bonnet is upgrading the crossovers in my speakers.

I asked my speaker designer about part quality. He did mention that caps, for example, can cost as much as $800 each. And that he has gone up to $50 ones.

Like all things “Hi Fi”, cost does not necessarily dictate quality. And I doubt that I would opt for 2 $800 caps. But there must be a sweet spot for crossover components? Any ideas?

mglik

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czarivey
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Instead of buying overly-overpriced and overly-overrated audiophile caps, makes far more sense purchasing higher performance speaker.

Other than that, replacement premium quality caps can be found on generic electronic sites such as digikey.com or newark.com. They have Nichion made caps as well.

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