westsea
Retirement present
External crossovers would be my approach, although it is more theory rather than measured results. I first mounted pssive crossovers at the rear of the cabinets (they had 5/6mm steel dished plate as the rear panel and I thought this would reduce the speaker magnetic field influencing the crossovers, plus limiting vibration. It does require extra space, and in effect pushes the speakers away from the wall. Subsequently I managed to aquire a pair of active amps which were mounted on an adjacent chimney breast wall, the cases were quite simple to make, speakers are about 300 to 400 mm from the amps, unlikley that they could be wired directly as the six terminals are a give away. However the downside is your fear, they are not elegant and caused some domestic grief. The six speaker wires in flexible trunking are also hard to hide.
I'm re-jiging some old tannoy gold cabinets made years ago, and have a 'plan' to mount the crossovers in the stands, some careful thought is still needed!! Good luck
I'm re-jiging some old tannoy gold cabinets made years ago, and have a 'plan' to mount the crossovers in the stands, some careful thought is still needed!! Good luck