Thiel Owners

@jafant 

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm very grateful to have these speakers, such an upgrade from my well-loved but comparatively dinky PSB Alpha B1s. I only feel a little burdened by having to get such a specific and powerful amp.

Do you agree that the Peachtree Nova 300s would be able to power the 2.4s below 4 ohms well? They seem to check the boxes and I'm fine stretching my budget since it has a DAC and preamp. 

Hey! So I inherited a pair of CS 2.4s that I love, along with a NAD C275BEE amp that I think is dying. The right channel keeps cutting out and only comes back after power cycling.

Short of looking into repairing that amp, I was thinking of getting a new integrated amp, hopefully with a DAC. I know the Thiels are picky in terms of ohms, but I'm trying to keep the cost under $1000, and the Yamaha A-S701BL looked good to me. Open to Ebaying a good amp too, but prefer new.

Will this amp be able to power the CS 2.4s adequately? They stay in a small NYC apartment room so they're not maxing out their volume. Thanks for any input!

That's definitely food for thought, thank you. It looks like that Nova 300 can power anything. Those are great deals on the refurbs, thanks!

Thanks to those who posted the earlier advice on the amp. I took a chance on the used Nova 300 and hopefully it’ll work out well.

I had another question if anyone has any experience with basic speaker repairs. The surround on the midrange driver on my 2.4 appears to be coming loose from the cone, and causes an awful rattling sound at certain frequencies, esp acoustic songs.

I was hoping to glue it back on with some sort of rubber cement or flexible adhesive like E6000. Any advice on what to use and how? Image of driver: