Thiel Owners

Can anyone recommend an "audiophile solution" to using straight banana plugs on the bottom-mounted binding posts? 

I know I can cobble something together at the hardware store, or from Amazon, but what have you all done?

I just laid my speakers down to see if any of my expensive cables can fit and found my right-angle bananas were badly bent. I need something better.

I think I found a workable solution to connecting cables with straight banana plugs to the down-facing binders on our Thiels.

Rummaging around through my audio junk box I found a set of four gold spade lugs I had bought off Amazon. These are very thick, fit a 5/16 post, and have a wire barrel that just happens to fit a 4 mm banana plug.

https://imgur.com/gallery/t199uNz

These aren't the ones I bought but I'd probably choose these instead--being Nakamichi.

https://a.co/d/5dL7Yl5

May I join the club?

I recently brought home a pair of CS7 speakers and have been soaking in audio nirvana since. Big imposing speakers much too large for my room (temporary), yet they completely disappear when the music starts.  And the bass...OMG.

Just one thing... Does a manual exist for this speaker? The Internet is saturated with literature on the 7.2, but I'm finding nothing on the 7.

I didn't know about this thread... Nice! 

So in December I took a road trip and brought home a pair of CS7 speakers.  Ever since I've been loving what they do, and rediscovering my music.

I've been skunked trying to find a manual. Plenty for the 7.2 but zippo for the original. Anyone have a copy?

My Thiels dominate my 11 x 13 basement room but the sound is glorious.

Most of my gear is 40 years old: Oracle TT, Monster Alpha 1 ctg, PS IV preamp. I upsized my VSP Labs amp (150wpc) for an Adcom 5800 (250wpc) that pushes these speakers to satisfying volume. I’ve recently added a Wiim streamer and last week got a Fosi Box 5 to play with to see if it’s better than the PS phono stage.

I’m moving in a few months to a house with a BIG space for these BIG speakers.

I’ll post a photo here if i can figure out what this site needs in order to attach it

Yes thank you jonandfam for the Way Back Machine link!

and then dealing with the spacing / time alignment with the appropriate monitors with now less intrusive DSP might be best.

Can DSP "fix" this?

Would it slice up sound into tiny frequency slices & reorient them to all arrive at our ears at the same time? Would this preserve or destroy other time & phase relationships in music--destroying imaging in the process?

@Tom,

Are new grilles available for the CS7?

Mine are looking a bit shabby and I'd like to consider a change to beige.

@Tom--

After your reply on 6/20 I sent a message thru the website contact form. No answer a week later.

I'll try calling.

There must be something to this idea of moving the XO away from the driver's into it's own enclosure. 

I have another set of speakers, maybe 30 years old, with the XO hidden in a false bottom. I'm sure it's cheaper & easier to just mount it behind the drivers.

Tom you might be intrigued by this odd XO. It's all capacitors. No resistors, no coils. All drivers are selected to have the same sensitivity, so no need for resistors for shelving. Caps hi-pass all drivers so they have to be well-behaved above their normal freq. limits. And the woofer is a dual-coil unit with a cap feeding the 2nd voicecoil with phase inverted--to electrically cancel the high freqs driving coil #1.

I've never heard of or seen anything like it. The speaker is a brutal load from lower-mid-range upward because all (4) drivers are coming online, with no cutoff.