Thiel CS5 modifications


I have seen many up-grade and modifications of various hi-fi gear and speakers, but look here!
One of the most complex crossover ever made is extracted from this huge loudspeaker model to arrange a five ways multiwiring crossover panel from the original single one! Not an easy task for sure. I bet this has been done to reduce and divide the tremendous power needed by the CS5 in the original configuration. It's the second link in the landing page:
http://dissanayake.webnode.it/links-/
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...But being an electronic engineer and daily dealing with technical design issues I'd like to point out that in any product there are NO fixed rules. Any board or circuit could be improved or work even better thanks to some small changes. Since there are no test evidence posted here of what is better before and after the modification, my personal view is that we would need to listen to this product with and without modifications and then take a decision....

Welcome Steffa2 to this discussion, in our field common measurements as frequency response in anhecoic room, Mil & Mol as for the loudspeakers, mean little being only bi-dimensional graphs of what happens in three dimensions. So, as you say, we need to listen to judge.
Time and phase response are very important to reconstruct the real event in our rooms. Moreover our ears are very sensitive to phase change at high frequencies, but, if the the number of ways increases and the crossover becomes more and more complex, this reconstruction is very difficult to obtain.
04-11-15: Steffa2
Hi guys
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But being an electronic engineer...
So Cheviot, thanks for pointing this out, I'm very interested to check wether this modification is really making difference...cheers guys

Steffa2

You could be the third valuable witness after Cheviot and the owner of these loudspeakers to the sound of these mods. An audiophile-engineer!
If the electronic engineer has the curiosity, he is welcome, can contact me anytime, I will ask the owner to organize a private listening session for him. Aloha!