Hey all,
So - a brief update:
When the BE tweeters came in, they were already wired - as in, wires already soldered to the positive and negative leads on the driver itself. Hmm. I called Tash and he said once I took out the original tweeter, II could take off the terminal plate on the speakers and remove the wires from the capacitors and terminal connections inside.
No thanks. After taking off one speaker's terminal plate and seeing the admittedly minimal innards of a de Capo (thanks to the lack of a crossover, no doubt), I still didn't want to risk screwing something up - which I know I would have. I even was neurotic about moving the internal baffling too much.
Instead, I unsoldered the new wires from the BE tweeters and then soldered the existing internal wiring onto the leads of the new tweeters.
They have about 20 or 25 hours or so on them, not really close to the 150 Tash recommends. But I haven't had time nor energy to do a lot of listening this month. I haven't noticed too much a difference yet; they're not overly bright or harsh, though there does appear some clipping on particularly taxing treble parts (vocal layers on Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark" cd; same with vocals on Dusty SPringfield's "Memphis" cd), though I don't know if this is due to the new tweeters, my amp, or the recording.
I'll give a more detailed and finalized review once I have enough hours on them to make one.
