@jafant I honestly do not have a full accounting of what I spent but I’m pretty sure it was north of $1000. I mean, I replaced everything except the drivers and cabinets. I have Cardas hookup wire and dual Cardas binding posts, fer-cryin-out-loud! Even the coax shunts caps at 100 uF each are a low voltage version of the CSA. My 2.4s are really tricked out. About the only stones left unturned were Path Audio re$i$tor$ and Jupiter copper foil bypa$$ cap$.
I do recall I spent about $100 on the Mills MRAs from Sonic Craft. But that was 3 years ago, so prices are likely higher now. Still, that’s a pretty good deal for upgrade in SQ from the sandcast resistors. I bought some stuff from Parts Connexion and other outlets but a lot of it came via Tom Thiel who was working directly with Clarity. And 6/10 coils came from Rob Gillum who had a stock of Lex-equivalent coils (Erse, maybe Jantzen, rather than FST).
I suspect a judicious DIYer with Lex boards could probably get about 80% of the SQ of my upgrade for, maybe, $500. Mills MRAs throughout, Clarity CSAs on the coax feeds (plus, maybe a single bypass cap - I used Multicaps but am really curious about Audyn True Copper Max or Jupiter in the bypass position), foil type inductors in the feed positions, refresh the 100 uF electrolytics with Jantzen Premium ELKOs. Those of us with FST boards might choose to reach deeper into our wallets, especially if the woofer caps are MKTs. If you have FST boards like I did (MKT caps and loosely wound coils), I suggest replacing everything.
But, remember, I’m insane :)
