Modifying Crossovers

@carlsbad2

Jerry ,  Your crossover is beautiful and your intent on mounting it externally should provide and extra level of improvement that I can't figure out why we aren't seeing speaker manufacturers doing it . 

I wish that the crossovers in my speakers were as simply designed as yours , the woofer board alone have more components than your entire crossover board .  I am just one capacitor away on the mid range from finishing my crossover upgrades. It's been a lot of work that few can or are willing to undertake but I'll say it been well worth the expense and effort with more than a 2% increase in sound quality , after all each of our components are built to meet a price point .  

Rob

@vair68robert My internal crossovers are on 2 boards and to replace them interally with bigger components would have taken at least 3 boards.  I appreciate the simplicity but am no expert at designing crossovers.  I'm going with the same values as the original design.  Sounds like you are too. Enjoy.  

@carlsbad2 - your crossovers look very nice - much neater than mine. I was pretty tight on space with the caps I ended up using. 

+1 @erik_squires   I've "crossover component upgraded" a dozen pairs of decent mid-fi speakers with terrific success, however, these all had 20 cent caps in the crossover.  I never varied from stated values.  

Always upgraded the wire also.  For $50 total it was amazing how much more performance could be squeezed out of the current design with better parts.

The Borresens need be carefully assessed at that level before 'Frankensteining'.  A slip of the scalpel and you've a doorstop.

@jaytor I was headed that way (internal) but I went with Jantzen foil inductors and I finally gave up trying to make everything fit.  I even had one built and disassembled it last night.  Good luck with your upgrade. 

Jerry