Refurbishing 30 year old speakers


Looking for advice on refurbishing speakers. I have owned a pair of KEF R107's since new. They are still some of the best sounding KEF speakers ever made IMO, but after 30 years they most likely could use some refurbishing. I'm not hearing any obvious deterioration of sound, but over time, I might just not be noticing the degradation. I would re-foam woofer surrounds, change ferro fluid in the tweeter, upgrade the crossovers, and possibly upgrade wiring. I'm Interested in anyone's experience and results with doing this. Did the refurbished speakers sound better than original, or even sound different? Of course the other option is to go speaker shopping and buy a modern speaker, but I have grown accustomed to the vintage KEF sound.....My only real beef with these speakers is the use of the outboard equalizer device called the KUBE which runs in the processor loop of the pre-amp. Never been real fond of having an active device like this in the system but admittedly the results still sound amazing. Thanks for your thoughts. 
dmiller01

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Dear @dmiller01 :  ""   Did the refurbished speakers sound better than original, or even sound different? ""

My first hand experiences are that the speakers quality performance levls goes higher for the better not different at all.

I did it with my vintage ADS L2030 where I changed the internal fiber-glass damping foam ( the L2030 has a true bix box. ) by long-hair virgin wool, I rewired internally with all silver KCAG KK, I take out of the speaker the crossover and this crossover is totally hard wired from the drivers internal wiring all over the amps outputs.

Over the years I made and test several different caps, inductors and resistors going from boutique caps as Duelund, Jupiter, V-caps and the like and finished with the best  ( really the best, no matters what. ) caps that in my case are Wima FKP-1 along Kemet caps, Vishay resistor and pure silver ribbon inductors..

Outstanding changes success.

So, go ahead.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.