Thiel Owners


Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
jafant

Hi all.  New to this thread - really because I had no idea this existed, but glad it does.  I'm the (VERY) proud owner of several (some past) pairs of Thiel speakers (1.2, 1.6, 2, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4's).  I fell in love with Thiel's since the first day I listened to them when I mistakenly walked into Omni Sound in Addison (Dallas sub) thinking it was just another stereo store I hadn't been to in about 1986/7.  Ended up buying a pair of 1.2's and a B&K ST-140 and still have both.  At some point I gave away the 2's and the 2.2's (for very little $) because the persons that I gave these to were listening to crap speakers but had good electronics (one had Mac stuff they other had something else just don't remember).

I recently acquired a nice pair of 2.4's and have been "fixing" them as the previous owner had no idea there were holes in the drivers, the bucking mags fell off of the woofers and various other abnormal things - but thought they sounded just fine - I think his hearing aids were on the blink personally.  Anyway, Rob, and now Gary, have helped me tremendously though the years and now helping me with these 2.4's.  Gary has rebuilt the coax drivers, helped with various parts and recently acquired a set of the Clarity Caps used in the 2.4SE's to bring mine up to the latest spec - or so I thought until I began reading this post over the past week or so.

In the process of gluing the bucking mags back onto the woofers and going to replace the caps in the coax section of the xover, but thought, what else should I replace on the coax board since I'm basically going to need to move some stuff around.

Being a noob to the thread - what else should I (or MUST) replace/upgrade that will make these already gorgeously sounding speakers even better.  Not really concerned about cost as long as I'm not spending thousands (but replacing these with something better is moving into the $10,000-15,000 category anyway) and open to any and all suggestions - I sort of an engineer hack to begin with so fire away.

 @tomthiel, thanks again. I don’t think I have enough room to pull the speakers from the front wall. But, if I did, well ……

It’s interesting that you preferred internal bi-wiring, as that’s the opposite to what Richard Vandersteen suggests. Then again many of his speakers have user adjustable controls on board. FWIW, Bruno Putzeys has suggested that with amplifiers distortion levels having decreased so much; the benefits of bi-wiring can now be appreciated. I don’t have strong feelings one way or the other(s).

In my fairly extensive wire and cable trials over the past few years, I found considerably more sonic variation between bi-wired cable and mono-wired cable. Since Thiel speakers were thoroughly engineered for single wire, that form represents the target performance. I can't replicate the claimed improvements for bi-wiring. 

I recognize that wire/cable is used to alter performance towards personal preferences, which is the owners' prerogative. I am keeping Jim's designs intact and looking for ways to improve performance while honoring the original intents and methods. Single speaker cable is among those design decisions.

 

wisinskt

Welcome!  good to see you here. Nice score on those CS 2.4 speakers. Thank You for citing your CSS experience with Rob, now Gary. Glad you had a positive rebuild.  Currently, what gear is in your System? Are you still located in the Dallas / Metroplex area?

 

Happy Listening!