how do you measure the coil in the crossover?


I am in the process of tweeking my rather inexpensive speakers, and I want to update the crossover componants. I would appreciate any help someone could give me on finding the value of the inductor coil for the low pass filter. I want to buy the alpha core equivilant.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks for your responses, I should also mention that the speakers are bi-wired as well, so there are two coils or chokes per crossover. I take it that these cannot be measured for value with an ohm meter?
I should have mentioned that the speakers are the RTS-9 floorstanders from Sound Dynamics, and the cabnets are really built, and braced quite well. What wire would you use to upgrade?
Thanks Sean, I have already written down all the values of the current capacitors used, and I plan on purchasing a higher quality (such as hovland musicap) capacitor to put in its place. The current caps are Hanlan, and I am unfamilar with these. There are four different values of these in each speaker, and my estimated costs to upgrade to the musicaps will be almost 150.00. The current wire is a light weight stranded wire that is clipped to the drivers (not solderd). If you could reccomend what guage of solid wire would be best I would consider checking to that.
Thanks again,
Mike
Where can I find the ohmite resistor? also the rosistor in my crossover says 10 W 3 R 3 on it, Is it a 10 watt 3.3 ohm?
Thanks Trelja for you imput.
Mike