I listened before and after and there was a pretty big improvement in the sound, as both speakers were now better matched, sounded more alive, a little more transparent, and the imaging even seemed better. The new replacement caps were all within a few percentage points of their marked values. I don't think it started that way as IMFs were a very high quality speaker brand with a lot of engineering and quality control. One of the electrolytic crossover caps was over 30% off its marked value. The caps in my IMFs were almost 50 years old, and I actually did measure the ones I removed with a capacitance meter. They currently make a line of their own speakers as well, in keeping with classic BBC designs. Falcon have a history with IMF and supply replacement cap sets for the IMF line of speakers, and several other British brands of speakers. I re-capped the crossovers in a set of working IMF loudspeakers that I bought, with replacement caps provided by Falcon Electronics in the UK. But sometimes I enjoy listening to a little bit more of a raw, back to basics, college dorm room kind of sound which is why these Advents won't be going away anytime soon : ) So as much as I like their sound they really can't match the refinement, smoothness and detail of the ADS's or the upper mid to high frequency clarity of the Ohm's. They are more nostalgic to me than anything else because my roommate in my Senior year at the University of Massachusetts had them set up in our off campus apartment. The original Advents sound very nice but in a different kind of way. While a prudent thing to do.no amount of recapping will make my original Advents rival the sound quality of myĪDS L730s or my Ohm C2s. Finally, getting your Advents up off of the floor might be a good idea as well. Old crossover caps were generally electrolytics which are notorious for drifting in capacitance value over time, plus drying out and going poof under power. Todays film capacitors are available in the same capacitance/voltage values and are far more transparent, plus you know they will be accurate as to their actual values. Yes, re-capping 50 year old speaker crossovers is a very good practice.
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