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MacGeek:
Ed,

Pianos n Stuff in Blawnox rents (or used to rent) equipment to measure your room.  A Rane RA 30 provides full bandwith Pink noise and a 1/3 octave RTA.  It will show where your room has humps, or dips in frequency response.  Even with out an EQ, you will be able to instantly see changes due to variations in speaker or furniture placement or through use of tone controls.  You might also be able to measure changes in the speakers performance before and after xover mods.  The rental cost was reasonable the last time I used one.

My personal experience suggests proper EQ will make more difference than xover component changes (except for repair of defective parts).  It can make good speakers sound great and great speakers blow you away.

SunnyDaze:
Sorry Jesse. I should read more carefully.

Slim-Shaddy:
Thanks for all of the input. As far as contacting R Russel.. I've asked him before about replacing the caps and he seemed to really dislike the idea, sating that there is no reason for it becaufse they should all be fine. He is great to talk to for advice about repair, but when it comes to updating or altering the speakers in any way, he seems to almost get offended.

Jesse,
Changing the inductor that goes to the woofer seems like a good idea.

klaus,
I would love to pick up a MQ, just to throw it on the system to see what kind of difference it makes, but they are not cheap. To be honest, I think it's asinine how much they are going for. For about the same price KRK makes a digital room corrector with a mic, which should remove the guesswork, and seemingly be an easier solution.

SunnyDaze:
My SS-315X has a spectrum analyzer. If you can find the mic cheap on ePay, we can use that to measure SPL at various frequencies about your listening area.

F1nut:
I should have also mentioned that upgrading the electrolytic caps to film/foil types WILL result in an increased bass response. You might want to try that first before changing inductors to see if that cures the bass shy issue.

I know some folks say that the shunt caps don't matter, etc., etc., but I beg to differ. Normally, I'd recommend Sonicap Gen I's, but the values needed are too high, so you'll have to go with Solen or maybe Dayton for the shunt caps.

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