Thiel Owners

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Nice score! If you have not visited P.S. Audio, you will enjoy Paul's Reference System. That alone is worth the trek.

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audio1326

after re-reading your post as above, no doubt that your 2.2 speakers need an upgrade. 30 years is a long time for any Gear. Nice to see an original CAL Audio Ikon Mk II with Power Boss. These are quite rare in Operating shape.

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I’m the original owner of CS 1.2's, they’ve been in storage for a while but am about to put them back into use in a renovated room. Looks like lots of talk about recapping here, is there recommendations for this model? Also, may be time for new foam, is there a source for the material there too? Thanks!

rc1985 - I can offer some general thoughts. The 1988 CS1.2 is a worthy speaker, having our first copper shunting rings on the woofer and our first aluminum tweeter (with ferro-fluid). Its development paralleled the 1989 CS5 and shared technology development between those co-products. I consider the CS1.2 as definitely worthy of up-grade.

Your woofers are from Vifa and have rubber surrounds. Foam went out with the original 'O' series. The surrounds should be renewable with rubber rejuvenator. I suggest you contact Rob Gillum at CoherentSource Service for recommendations.

I have done work on the successor CS1.5, but not yet on the 1.2. I am willing to get XO information and make recommendations. However, I will caution that replacing XO components is a rather expensive route to higher performance. We might rather look at other low-hanging fruit of port aerodynamics, grille-board attachment, wire, terminals, XO placement and signal routing. We can wade in via PM if you wish.  

I remember Thiel being very well respected American speakers some years back and whenever I heard them I thought they sounded very nice especially how spacious they sounded.

Is the company out of business?  I haven't heard much mention of them in recent years about new products or anything.