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| Thiel Owners Total resistance of my new boards was within 0.1 Ohm of the OEM. This was not some haphazard replacement of parts. Nearly all of the design and parts choices, including board layout, were made by @tomthiel. My only contributions, other than the la... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel Glad to know you’re still working on the upgrades and making them more cost effective. I never bothered to total my parts cost other than I know it was well above $1000 even with some of the discounts you were able to provide on some ite... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant yes, still running Cardas Golden Reference which have been out of production for years now. Bi-wired! That was my final step along with upgrading to Cardas CPB binding posts. That really snapped everything into a beautiful focus, icing on ... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Haven’t changed anything in years. Still running Ayre QB-9 Twenty and Kenwood 500 plus Ayre PX-5 into an Ayre AX-5 Twenty feeding the heavily modded CS2.4. I still love the sound and haven’t heard anything at this price point (and well bey... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom suggested tring a bypass capacitor on the 1uf bypass capacitors on the tweeter and the mid speakers , I found a pair of .01uf Cardas capacitors and installed them on the tweeter I can highly recommend this "upgrade" . I only did the tweeter b... | |
| Thiel Owners 2024 is bringing some tangible fruition @tomthiel Best wishes for 2024. I hope you are able to bring your sonic advances to a larger audience this year. I will testify to the notably improved sound quality via passive parts upgrades under you... | |
| Thiel Owners 105 dB peaks (and quite a bit louder as well) are not all that uncommon during live performances (and I think that’s what we’re trying to replicate here). I often bring earplugs to shows that I think will be loud. Makes my ears actually hurt... | |
| Thiel Owners It’s super useful to know that unsound demands peaks of around 105 dB (think table saw volume). If you want to play many Thiel models that loudly, yes, you do need a moonrocket amp. You can also get there by using something like JBLs rather than T... | |
| Thiel Owners Those 2.4s look to be in great shape, that’s a great price. But they also very likely have the FST-sourced crossovers. Would be good candidates for @tomthiel mods (Clarity caps, Mills MRA resistors, etc.). | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant That Ayre uses Cardas wire so extensively is a clue that they source their copper from domestic sources, certainly not China. Charles Hansen was a huge fan of Cardas. And he posted at audioasylum regarding his experiences visiting speaker ... | |
| Thiel Owners I used Cardas “chassis wire”. These are Litz stranded and ends *must* be tinned in a solder pot. Cardas can do this but they charge something like $5 per end - ouch! So, I bought a cheap solder pot. My entire project used Cardas solder (which is l... | |
| Thiel Owners Can confirm that Cardas Audio has a pair of 3.7 although I don’t know if that’s the main speaker in their listening room. The person I spoke with was interested in my upgrade project and wants to be alerted to any upgrades that become available fo... | |
| Thiel Owners I imagine Thiel having concentrated on hi fi product refinement rather than the tremendous investments and demands of addressing home theater. Not only would the state of the art have been stretched, but the internal workings of the company would... | |
| Thiel Owners I share your bias @tomic601 If I win the lottery, probably go straight to Vandy 7 and MX-Rs. Until then, very happy with my modded 2.4s and AX-5. IME, gotta spend a lot of money to shore up the few weaknesses of my system. In fact, the most cost... | |
| Thiel Owners The Wilson approach has certainly won the day Could be argued their success is partly an artifact of their pricing. Here is Charles Hansen’s take on Fremer (and most of the audio press, by extension; from an audioasylum post): a) The more e... |