Mayday,
Sorry, had to leave for something and didn't add in the "what can be done" part of my earlier post
Upgrading the crossover is a pretty effective way of improving the sound but you have to make sure you measure the impedance of the existing inductors so as to compensate for them in case say you got some copper foil inductors which has very low impedance.
This might lead to some shootout in different capacitors. I'd suspect your speakers to be using OEM polypropelene capacitors already so you'd have to find better.
Here's a list of capacitors and some subjective listening results
http://home.hetnet.nl/~geenius/CAP.html
The other mod would be to use very short runs of the same speaker cables to jumper the 2 or more pairs of binding posts. The supplied metal jumpers are REALLY bad
Also make sure speaker placement is optimum, having speakers on a solid high mass plinth or pneumatic ones will help reduce speaker/room and speaker box vibration.
Sorry, had to leave for something and didn't add in the "what can be done" part of my earlier post
Upgrading the crossover is a pretty effective way of improving the sound but you have to make sure you measure the impedance of the existing inductors so as to compensate for them in case say you got some copper foil inductors which has very low impedance.
This might lead to some shootout in different capacitors. I'd suspect your speakers to be using OEM polypropelene capacitors already so you'd have to find better.
Here's a list of capacitors and some subjective listening results
http://home.hetnet.nl/~geenius/CAP.html
The other mod would be to use very short runs of the same speaker cables to jumper the 2 or more pairs of binding posts. The supplied metal jumpers are REALLY bad
Also make sure speaker placement is optimum, having speakers on a solid high mass plinth or pneumatic ones will help reduce speaker/room and speaker box vibration.
Whatever you do can be undone or replaced. So try a few different cables as its not expensive, try some thin ratshack cable, some heavy gauge but cheap auto cable, power cable, Cat5, and maybe some of your designer cable that im sure you paid too much for (sorry but it its only cable).
Same goes for caps, buy a few different brands and types (all with same value mind you) and try each one, see if get a difference in sound, see if you like it.
This will all come back to your preference in sound, just give it a go and noone can tell you if one thing sound better than the other, let your ears decide.
Same goes for caps, buy a few different brands and types (all with same value mind you) and try each one, see if get a difference in sound, see if you like it.
This will all come back to your preference in sound, just give it a go and noone can tell you if one thing sound better than the other, let your ears decide.
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