Okay, I had a little time this weekend and got back on these and got them finished up.
They shoot almost identical curves with both networks. It may have a 1/100th of a db difference in the response here and there but not anything anyone can hear. For the most part the two curves lay right on top of each other.
I did have to add another switch in the woofer circuit of each speaker to break those components out of each circuit. So I managed to get three switches all into the stock binding post cup. All up for stock crossover (top binding posts) and all down for the crossover using Sonicaps, Erse inductors, and a Mills resistor (lower connectors).
They are going to need to burn in for a while now.
I did do some listening to them already though, and they REALLY sound like they need burn in time. No real surprises in sound between the two networks other than one thing. The higher quality crossover always sounded slightly louder when switching back to it. Output levels measure identical between the two, but the transient response is different. The higher quality crossover allows every peak to come through as such while the stock crossover softens and rounds off the peaks. It tends to smear them together more and blur one to the next.
This my be real enlightening for the nay says that will get to compare these.
