Thiel Owners

Yes, Mr Tomthiel. the cs3.5 did come with the Eq and thank you for the info on the grills, I have not played them. but was wondering if they would sound best without the grills, but I will still purchase them, to get the best performance out of them what advice would you give for room placement? 

gmosley - Room placement is an art of its own. This forum can guide you to literature / information on that subject. Thiel products are wide-dispersion transducers, so try to keep them away from side walls or treat the walls more so than with many other speakers.

Thiel’s grilles are multi-purpose. In addition to the aesthetics, they also fill the edges of the baffle to reduce diffraction. Better if you use them.

The EQ extends bass to about 25Hz - worth the extra pair of interconnects.

@thieliste I replaced the OEM hookup wire in my CS2.4 SE with Cardas. In the same step, I replaced the OEM binding posts with Cardas PBP and made it biwireable (ie, runs of speaker cables from the amp to binding posts connected to each of the coax and woofer boards). So, I cannot ascribe the overall effect to any of those three changes. But I will say that I had a BIG smile on my face when I hit play on Roon :)

Really curious to learn more about what Tom Thiel has brewing . . .

Happy Friday! All

beetlemania

- I’m brewing the tea we started those several years ago. It’s getting richer and stronger.

Among the many lessons learned were real developments in wire and cable. You and I both like Cardas; very well conceived and executed designs. But with considerable complexity and cost. I learned from senior wire designers that to work optimally, the design must be worthy, plus everything must be executed to perfection, and the connectors to even higher perfection.

I suspect that a big part of what you like in your Cardas conversion is the PBP posts. Any of you who have those big-lug Thiel binding posts like on the CS2.4 can run an experiment. Put locking bananas on your cables. Try the inexpensive WBT / angled, stackables from Parts Express. Remove the knurled post nuts. Plug the bananas into the banana jacks. Listen and report back.

Ruminate on that and consider the GR-Research Electra Tube Connectors.

Small progress every day.

Tom