Thiel Owners

vair68robert - a general thought.

Changing any value would subvert Jim's expertise. Thiel controls drivers over a 7-octave span rather than the few octaves required for fast slopes. Board space and wiring density are real issues in revisiting an existing design. My layout strategy is quite different from Jim's - it requires considerably more footprint. Also, the wiring nodes are replaced by direct coupling of each component output to its mating component input. Duramax is alluding to replacing Thiel's signature 1uF styrene/tin bypass with a newly designed multi-section 1uF cap. In its ultimate form it would be all copper, but the particulars of its multi-section ratios is the key improvement. The larger number of smaller value caps also makes its own performance enhancements.

Cheers from the rabbit hole.

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.

My speaker cables are terminated with spade lugs.  Just be sure not to damage the terminal by overtightening.

One of my 8in woofer on my CS2.4 finally gave out.  There is something kind of noise coming from the woofer.  Does anyone know if Rob at CSS can rebuild the 8in. woofer?

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