Speakers with external parts, gimmicks or serious?


So I’ve seen, very rarely, speakers that allowed users to change the crossovers by swapping parts. Some by having external hookups to a resistor or capacitor. This isn't just having an external crossover, but having the crossover specifically designed to swap parts in and out. Kind of like some of the high end phono preamps that require jumpers or parts to be swapped.

In theory this would give a lot of flexibility in treble balance but also sound quality. What do you think, would this be a real game changer, or is it better to have this control elsewhere.

Best,


Erik
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I believe Wilson provides resistor kits to allow the user to tailor the frequency response to some degree.  Nothing new.  
@chayro Oh, I forgot about them.

In addition, some makers provide fancy jumper boards, or switches to tailor the response curve to taste. 

To me that seems like a much better option than to keep swapping amps and cables, but it doesn't seem to be what audiophiles want.

Erik
So I found the Gryphon Mojo which has a replaceable resistor, and I think there's another brand that makes it easy. Zu perhaps?

Forgot.

Best,


Erik
My old Magnepan MG1.6s came with an external resistor that you could insert or not as you wished.
It could certainly be done....A manufacture could say.... switch the 3mfd capacitor with a 4mfd to lower the contour between the mid and tweeter or 4 mic to 3 mic to raise.  or have a simple Lpad with plug in resistors...with instructions... current tweeter has a 3db pad,  change R1 to this and R2 to this to increase to a 4db pad.... etc.... some changes can be done for taste.  Or plug in these 3 parts to add a notch filter to take the peak out.
Overall,  most manufactures try to obtain a flat response....