Beginners Guide: Speaker Crossover Upgrade 

You should get one of them automatic drills, I hear good things.

There are so many things to play with with Speaker, Amp, I played around a lot and realized that changing the crossover capacitors, rewire the crossover, changing the interstage capacitors in the amp are money-saving games but bring greatest effect.

HiFi Collective sir my old school buddy that i bought some nice towers he totaly rebuilt,he mounted nice bookshelf KLH speakers plus he crossnetworked them into the towers,they sound nice with the klh speakers on top,hes a speaker genious..the towers are built tight from the inside,they are solid

I upgraded the caps in a set of Kef Cara's and im not sure there was much of a difference really, it definitely wasn't night and day, but seems maybe slightly more natural? could be different depending on quality of the caps in the crossover as the speakers I got were kind of the cheaper high end when they came out I think

Did he make that drill out of an eye beater ?

Personally I like to test different changes in a crossover before commiting to a definitive plan. I run wires from the drivers through the port and place the crossover parts on the ground where I can listen to some music and test tones and making some modifications and be able to listen if the sound is better or worse. For example, if we put a new capacitor on the tweeter, the response may change slightly and we might need to put a new resistor with a higher value to balance it to the woofer response. The changes can be made on the fly and the configuration of the crossover could be redesigned to better results. Modifying the damping material inside of the speaker might be something to look at too. Good luck with your projects!

Appreciate this video , cheers 👍👍

the 1 ohm resistor is such a low value i would have kept it in , did it sound any better with the caps ?

Love that intro!

M audio was using the electrolytics in an old attempt to soften the higher frequencies, but it never really works.

Could you hear a difference after doing this?

Bookshelf boston Acoustics CS 2s ive owned for over 10 years could use an upgrade in certain areas .mainly the mid? the highs an the lows are fine for apt usage..id luv some simplesuggestions from trustworthy sources that know what there saying.. The last time I got inside of em I had removed the cotton Filling which improved the mids tremendously beyond that is there anything simple can be done to the voice coil or crossovers ?since there inexpensive bookshelf speakers it dosent really make sense to send em in to G.R. research or anything like that..Suggestions are appreciated,Thanks!

Hi thx for the video. How much difference of sound did you get with that modification?

Is there a demo

So you listened to the upgraded one and then to the original, and the video from that you posted where exactly? Pretty please.

So what was the end result?? Ok you changed the parts. Did they make an improvement?

I have an old set of B-I-C Venturi Formula 4 speakers I picked up for $40. The tweeters where blown which I have upgrades comming and also a new set of capacitors. However, mine are rated at 16uf 50v so do you think I can get away with 15uf 250v? 16uf 50v is nearly impossible to come by. I searched for 2 days straight until my nose was bleeding lol

How much difference of sound did you get with that modification? Any sound demo?

Please could you elaborate on that part about ESR

need to up grade a DR 51 Elac do you have a video for that ?

Hello, I have Bonne Crossover speakers. Can I buy and add any type of Crossover to it? Thank you

Hi Nick, exactly what soldering iron/station did you use for this upgrade?

Can you swap crossovers from one set of speakers to another ?

Sir I have pioneer private pro sx 730 a couple of speaker on high one tweeter is automatic turnoff for 10sec after 10sec it works again and often amplifer is trip so what should i do?

I would have liked to see the traces or a quick diagram

Can you hear the result ?

Yes good idea

Hi ! So I upgraded the capacitors in my 30 yo B&W DM640, w/Solen PP caps, and they became too bright! I really miss the smooth relaxed voice they had previously. What would you recommend?

If I I've got sony speakers with no capacitor on the low woofer 120watt woofer 6ohm anyone got idea?

I have a antique drill like that. Collect those old tools. I've never actually used mine aha

Why not by-cap that monster?

Ceramic resistors are used to help dissipate heat. 10 15 % close probably? Hmmm

Did he just pull out an ancient artifact drill?

Lost a bit of confidence in this guy when he pulled out my grandad's drill.

If ud used an electric drill they wdv complained about noise.. Plus u can control a manual better for ur on the fly work.. Well done.. I don't work for HFC

Why not just ditch the boards and hardwire them?

Well I for one am intrigued by your Polish grandpa's drill..

Specccsif.. speccc.. specific

need guide for masters i think :)

I've never seen a more twisted performance. Capacitors are not fixed by anything, vibrations will kill this filter. a shame

The drill is epic but to long of a bit. It's bending from the wieght of the drill

Jeez Nick, time you got a battery drill/driver.

But a tru RMS meter ..and without a frequentie you dont measure any thing.

could've saved time and money by putting those speakers in the skip

You probably would’ve wanna replace that iron core inductor with an air core inductor of the same rating as least. The iron core inductor kind of smears the sound The only problem is a good heavy gauge wire air core conductor of the exact same rating in millihenries probably would not be able to fit through that small square hole. You would have to mount the crossover outside the cabinet unless you were willing to remove one of the front speakers for a bigger opening.

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Can you Cut open the Mundorf Silver Gold Cap vs Solen Silver Cap to view the inside can ? Is it real Pure Silver Foil or basically just a Fake Foil ? Video have ! ( Surely u will have Billion of Billion of Viewer in your RU-vid)

The moral of the story , bi-amp if you're crossover trouble is big.

i hope his hearing is better than his sight, he needs 2 glasses to see lol

You don't know wher the M Audio manufactured ? Well... You should read what hifi magazine bro...

WHAT KIND OF WRISTWATCH

next time an electric little drill.

That’s a crossover? The parts I got to build one from parts express are way beefier. Weak

The hell is all that creeking noise constantly

could have wire the caps point to point as the traces on the pcb are as thin as piss what a waste of time upgrade your tools first then you carnt blame them have fun

He will ruin the sound by tinkering with the crossover

over kill

It was hard to follow speaking very softly

Cameraman needs to pick garbage for a couple weeks

Wish these people would speak more clearly. Try using a Dremel. Guess England still in the dark ages.

a herty gerty drill, my my.............

dude get a battery drill . stop the struggle…

Buy Electric drill. Rhymes with electronics : )

Wow this was painful to watch, so many questions so little time. Why didn't he disconnect the entire board to perform this work? 🤔 If the components were bigger than the original ones why didn't he use perforated board to make it all fit nicely? 🤔 And I think there are enough comments about the egg beater style drill. But still is he Amish and that's why he's using that hand crank drill??🤔 LMAO!!! This video was pure comedy but good job though.

What the hell is that weird rattling noise in the background that's very annoying

Specific😅😂

Damn that is a cheap crossover

You lost me at the hand drill lol

Don't understand anything you said .

Sloppy

NOT REQUIRE UPGRADE SPEAKER CROSSOVER!!!!! ALL THE DRIVERS REQUIRE HIS OWN CROSSOVER NOT DRIVERS IS COMBATIMBLE ALL CROSSOVERS! SPEAKERS PIONEER ALL THE DRIVERS AND CROSSOVER IS PIONEER!

If that's the best u can do, I will not subscribe

Thanks for the video, I'm a noob and I'd find it really useful if you briefly explained everything you brush over, if you put 'beginner' in the video title then assume we know nothing 🙏👍👍🤝! We can tell you have lots of experience and we just want to pick your brain a bit more.. 👌🥸