Thiel Owners

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is this a CD or LP set? I have the CD set arriving soon and can test on a fellow Audiophile's CS 3.7 speakers.  Stand by until one of the CS 3.7 owners on the Panel chimes in to address your query.

Happy Listening!

TomTweak - these speakers seem chock full of exotic solutions. Have they been submitted for review, or do you have any white papers or third-party commentary? 

Beetlemania may have directly compared coils to coils 

I did not make this comparison as I replaced all caps and coils at the same time. Not possible, with so many simultaneous changes, to isolate the sonic differences from coils. I spent close to four months elapsed time making changes, allowing burn-in, and making sonic comparisons in mono with the modified and “reference” channel. 
1) OEM FST boards (sandcast resistors) to FST with Mills MRAs
2) FST with Mills to Masonite boards with Clarity CSA throughout, Mills, and “Lex” or Erse foil coils, the latter on feed positions (ie, everything different except Mills)
3) New boards with and without Multicap bypasses on coax feeds
4) 160 versus 250V caps on woofer shunts (I heard a difference)
5) OEM hookup wire and binding posts versus Cardas wire and binding posts
6) Single versus biwire from amp

I would not lose sleep over unavailability of six nines coils. If you have these in your classic Thiels, great! If you have FST, see if Rob Gillum has “Lex quality” or buy the best you can. I mean, we’re talking about speakers 10-30 years old that were modestly priced to begin with. Sonic improvements from better caps and resistors are notable even if I can’t really speak specifically to coils. That said, IMO, it’s worth putting foil coils in the feed position as these are not expensive.

Beetle

I have to ask , where any of the values on your resistors, capacitors 
or inductors changed ? 
When researching inductors of the same value both larger gauge wire 
and foil both had less resistance .
As TT pointed out that those resistance changes would require 
chnages on the crossovers .
The difference in ERSE 2.2mH 18 wg .781ohm and Solen's .76ohm
is small but it still has me concerned ( especially after TT's info ) .
Most likely I'll end up using ERSE and after TT's wire experiments
I'm going to install Cardas 18awg solid enamel coated wire , covering it with a cotton sleeve for the mid/tweeter speakers while keeping the Cardas stranded 15.5awg for the bass .
This turned into a more complicated project than I hoped .

Rob

@jafant I was streaming this on TIDAL or Qobuz though I assume the CD or LP should be the same. It is very nice sounding release. I listened to it late last night on my headphones and loved it.

The passage that is giving my CS3.7’s a hard time is at 39 seconds onwards where George starts humming. That is what I meant by a ’hot’ sounding sonic. I think every time he hums my COAXs gets distorted.

I would tend to believe I have some damage but it sort of defiles explanation given how the speakers are used.