Thiel Owners

I tried some Iso Acoustic Iso-Pucks under one of my Thiel 2.7s tonight.

I'm not familiar with this product but, as a rule, isolation footers should be used only for electronics and, maybe, cables but never speakers. I'm not surprised you didn't have good results.

I am using small wood blocks under the spikes of my CS2.4s but only because I am protecting the rug they sit on . . . I'm not willing to damage the rug. At some point, I will take the rug out and listen for how much, if at all, the wood blocks are degrading the SQ.

I forgot to mention what was probably the key feature in favor of the SI-1 for me. It has fully balanced circuitry, not just balanced inputs and outputs. The only other active crossover I found with this feature is a particular variant in the Marchand line, the XM44-2FBA. Since my pre and power amps both have fully balanced designs, I wasn't keen on inserting a device with unbalanced circuitry between them.

Thank you beetlemania.  I will check it out.

Good luck, bcarr38
In your previous post you wrote:

I have a pair of CS 2.3s with upgraded coax speaker which sound great but I am interested in upgrading

Was the upgrade the driver or crossover?

I am *really* happy with the CS2.4SE. It can't reproduce the left-most 2 or 3 keys on a piano but I can't hear any other weakness or shortcoming. I'm very curious to listen to a Vivid Giya or TAD Ref One or Vandy 7 again to discern how those designs are better (of course this will be confounded by changes in electronics and room). To be clear, I'm not imagining the CS2.4 is their equal but surely those speakers are near the horizontal asymptote on the performance/price graph.

have you thought about what might be the weakest link in your system? ie, consider upgrading you source or amp first? IME, these are just as important as the speaker.

" BTW...

I tried some Iso Acoustic Iso-Pucks under one of my Thiel 2.7s tonight.

Some here probably know Iso Acoustics products are all the rage these days in terms of speaker stands/isolation and their Gaia series speaker footers seem beloved."

I do not think the iso pucks were ever designed for a floor standing speaker at all.  I think they are really for electronics as was mentioned above.  On my 2.7's,  i had been using the outrigger with the spikes that came with them.  Replaced them with big brass feet from Mapleshade and that was a nice improvement.  Recently I too got a set of the Gaia feet that i screwed into the outriggers.  My girlfriend liked the brass feet better but i liked the more expansive sound with the Gaia. I think either the Gaia or the brass feet are worth looking into depending on your sound preferences.