Speaker Mods?

Alfred,
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that nobody will want to buy your modified speakers in the future. Selecting drivers/crossovers is a very interactive process, and is tricky to maximize without a lot of experimentation & knowledge. If you decide to modify them you'll have even more money wrapped up in them while the resale is simultaneously dropping through the floor. A potential buyer is likely to view the whole process as a huge red flag. If you change them you better want to keep them. It's probably not the best investment.

I suggest you sell them and combine your resale proceeds with whatever you would have spent on upgrades to finance the new purchase. I'd suggest a used or kit pair. There are many great kits from the sources listed previously. I've owned Madisound MDY-4's (they won't have the bottom end you're looking for), but they offer several other great options (I was always partial to the Dynaudio kits). I went with North Creek Music Systems (Scanspeak drivers and NCMS crossovers are amongst the best of the best) for my current setup. You owe it to yourself to check out the kit option. The other best bang for buck is to pick up a pair of whatever you've heard and liked used. A suggestion for small speakers with suprisingly good sounding LF (so long as you don't play them too loud) and great midrange/HF is the Totem Model 1's.

Best of luck.

I bought tweeter replacements from Madisound and had no problem... these were exact replacement tweeters. Changing tweeters to another model is NOT recommened.. will really screw alot of things up I'm told.

I agree with several of the post regarding changing drivers and tweeters. That is usually a bad idea if you do not know what you are doing.

However, a great upgrade is to re-wire the internal wiring with the same or better quality wire you are using as speaker wire. While doing this you can also remove any brass or metal hardware used to connect the standard wire and make nice solder connections with Silver Solder (WBT or AQ Brand) This simple mod can take you to the next step in sound without spending much money at all. For example, I re-wired my Sonus Fabers with XLO Reference Type 5 as that is what I use for my speaker wire.

KiD

Chris

I wouldn't change the driver. The speakers are voiced with these tweeters for overall balance and realistic timbre, which you might distroy.

Careful selection of mods should not decrease the resale value of the speakers. I've gotten more for ones I've sold modified than I would if they weren't...and justifiably, as they sounded better!

I'd suggest some crossover mods and internal speaker rewiring, as did a couple of people here. Paradigm References with their hard domes tend to be a little intense with some systems. There's only cheap vinyl insulated zip-cord inside those speakers. I've redone a couple pairs of them with DH Labs wire internally, and feel it was a very nice complement, but you can also go with something a little mellower. The DH Labs wire made them much more open and transparent, though extended the highs significantly over the standard zip-cord. This made it a little brighter, as the zip cord was killing some response, but it's also nice and smooth. A little trim with resistors as mentioned below might do in balance, as the speakers were voiced and crossovers designed with the zip-cord in them. I found the Kimber stuff to be too zippy and tipped up, and aggrevated the balance.

Changing the caps can do wonders. The caps Audiopath mentioned are all good choices. You might also add a resistor or maybe a fixed L-Pad (a resistor configuration that keeps impedence constant), and with it you can trim a little volume off the tweeter. I'd probably take it down no more than about a db.

Good luck!

thanks to all very much for your info,it was really helpful,merry christmas and a happy new year to all.AL