Modifying Crossovers

This used to be a VERY sore point for me. I got so tired of seeing SO Called High End Brand Names using something similar to Cat5 wire and a single off the shelf Radio Shack quality capacitor inside. I sincerely hope that this is a thing of the past. I might say that I do believe that most of the really quality speaker manufacturers have real science backing them up when they design their crossovers. I still try to have faith in the educated human mind.
I must remind the folks that there are so many components to chose from and different ideas behind how they go about creating a particular crossover. A Particular driver may have some inherent oddity that requires something that you are not aware of and can’t predict.
Also lets just look at one component, the capacitor. And even at that, One Brand, MUNDORF. They make so many different caps for any given value that it would be insurmountable for the average user to pick one and say that just because it is a Mundorf; it will give my speaker a better sound. You might hit on the right one but if you miss yo just wasted a bunch of spare change and time. and at the same time probably gained a slanted opinion of Mundorf when they really don’t disserve it.
Looking at Inductors, I would love to brag about continuous ribbon wound inductors over wire wound inductors but even then this could blow up in my fact just because I don’t know something about the coil in the speaker’s driver that would necessitate the wire wound over the ribbon wound.
And just to show you that I can screw up a speaker as well as the next guy. I took one of my own designs where I originally used Chartreuse caps in and always liked them, but thought I could do better so I spent a couple hundred dollars on some Mundorf caps. I have regretted that decision every day since.