Hello Heinz. Regarding the Tannoy supertweeters. I concurr with your assessment and did use the St-100 for a stint. A close friend brought over a ribbon super tweeter that I much preferred to the Tannoy St-100. Sold the Tannoy st-100's and am now using the French Audax pro tweeter[a silk dome] for supertweet duty. [a 1st order crossover alignment at 24khz]
Yes,like most any oil impregnated capacitors... the silver supremes take what seems like forever to fully open up, particularly in low voltage crossover applications. I like to burn in all my caps employing a high voltage [frequency modulted] signal prior to installing them in any application, as I truly believe it a mandatory requirement to make any objective comparable analysis.
Regarding the tannoy crossovers: You mentioned you changed one capacitor in yours. Was it one in the high-pass section?
I updated the most of the passive parts of the crossovers in mine [excluding the inductors] as I was occasionally experiencing lower output with one speaker due to dirty contacts on the energy level switch [pot]. Once I removed the crossovers from the cabinets and bi-passed the switches, It immediately became apparent that the these contacts in the signal path were a substantial liability.Furthermore, when I re-installed the updated crossovers back into the cabinets, I came to the conclusion [immediately] that leaving the crossovers out of the cabinet [ re:outboard crossovers] are the only way to go!
Back to the crossovers:
After testing the capacitors, resistors, and switches on the crossovers, I discovered that a few of the resistors had drifted out of spec as well as one of the capacitors.
I then decided to replace all the resistors and capacitors on the crossovers, both the hi-pass section as well as the low pass section.
The speakers are now more dynamic,more extended in the frequency extremes [particularly in the midbass] better resolution and focus. The midrange is very vivid with a layered texture thats definitively more coherent.
Simply put: A substantial improvement across the board without removing the subliminal tonal balance that the classic dual-concentrics Tannoys are famous for.