Thiel Owners

Saturday the 14th -All

Here’s one of my dream tweaks for my 2.7s

replace the front baffle, Which I think is MDF,

With a thicker constrained layer damped aluminum

Baffle.  
 

Also, I’d like to hear my Thiels with the grills off, However

I am allergic to the look of drivers in general, And as neato

as the Thiel drivers are, I’d find them very distracting.

So in my dreams, Rob Gillum comes up with a way

To make the drivers black - Some sort of spray coating?

So that The drivers blend in with the baffle. 

I agree with you about the grills off and I too wish the woofers were black ,

I'm not sure if an aluminum baffle frame would be an improvement but since the woofer and the baffle are the same as the 2.4 ( of which many more were built ) maybe someday the dream will come true .

A while back I had tried adding resistors in series with the coaxial speakers , they didn't sound good . Tom suggested tring a bypass capacitor on the 1uf bypass capacitors on the tweeter and the mid speakers , I found a pair of .01uf Cardas capacitors and installed them on the tweeter I can highly recommend this "upgrade" . I only did the tweeter because I think these were the last 2 capacitors for sale since Cardas stopped making their golden ratio caps a while back (bummer) .

vair68robert

Can you talk about the presentation and sound after adding those Cardas .01uf capacitors? Feel free to cite your fave musical tracks that saw an improvement "upgrade".

Happy Listening!

I usually use symphony orchestra music Beethoven's symphonies or Dvorak's "New World " 9th symphony by the Chicago Symphony with Fritz Reiner conducting. I will also use David Crosby's first album to listen to the chiming guitar sounds and how they linger and fade away .

If one feels that your Thiel's are to bright then the adding of a .01uf cap on the tweeter solves the problem ,  the violins now reach the highest levels without sounding bright or brittle , the hall sounds larger than ever , and this was done after installing Mills resistors and Clarity Purity 15uf caps on both the tweeter and mid crossovers .