As I said before, these modifications tune the speaker to fit the owner’s particular taste and system, and as such, the changes can be unfavorable. A local dealer in my area makes custom speaker systems (mostly horn-based) and tuning involves trying external damping of the horn, applying thin felt strips to the inside of the horn, changing the type and amount of damping to the sides of the cabinet, changing crossover parts based on a prospective buyer’s preference, etc. I get to hear these changes, and any one of them can result in dramatic changes.
The issue I have with the kind of modifications mentioned in the video is that a lot of people assume that certain types of changes are always better—more damping is better, more expensive caps are better than cheap ones, etc. Additional cabinet damping might make the bass tighter, which one person may like, but someone else might find the sound to be too dry and lifeless. The type and brand of caps that sound good is likewise subjective. The custom builder I mentioned above thoroughly hates Mundorf caps in any of his speaker or electronic builds.
If you ever heard the effect of even a tiny change in the level of the midrange and tweeter, you will appreciate the value of L-pad attenuators controlling such drivers. I don’t understand how manufacturers expect their designs to be optimized to the particular buyer’s taste and room acoustics such that such basic adjustment is not necessary. The removal of such controls has to be among the worse modern design trends; reversing this by adding back controls would probably be the best modification one can try.