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Would I gain anything?

I have a stock pair of JBL L-200 speakers. The cabinets are in excellent condition as are the drivers. One of the cheesy spring loaded input connectors is missing.

Would it improve the performance significantly to remove the crossover and rewire the system using good quality speaker wire and new binding posts and then bi-amping with an external active crossover?

From what I understand these JBL drivers are still among the best and the cabinets, while dated in appearance are well constructed and pretty dead.
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markphd
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It is always speculative as an improvement to remove the internal crossover and replace it with an external active crossover unless the designer intended such an upgrade.

Speakers are (or should be) designed as a package. Trade offs are made between the various elements of the speaker. Although an active crossover is far superior to a passive one, the designer may not have envisioned the drivers and cabinet he chose to match with the crossover you are replacing his with.

So it may help, or it may not.
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