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| Thiel Owners Pretty much all speaker designs are a balance of trade-offs. If there was a perfect formula then all speakers would implement that design. Sealed bass enclosures are generally considered to sound the most accurate and that is certainly what I hear... | |
| Thiel Owners @sdecker My analog section is decent: Kenwood 500 (direct drive) mounted with BenzMicro ACE, tonearm wiring replaced with Cardas feeding an Ayre P-5 . . . But I almost never use it. Until this week, I hadn’t used it at all since probably last wint... | |
| Thiel Owners @twoch I've done tie-dye once but fail to see how that is relevant to this thread.@tomthiel @sdecker OK, you now have me very curious to try a baffle treatment. But my DAC is away getting an upgrade (I'm currently rediscovering my LPs), so I'll h... | |
| Thiel Owners the 630V caps and far-more-expensive Mundorfs et al were simply too big for the space on the XO board The higher voltage versions, with thicker film, are reported to sound better. I didn't compare different voltages on the coax feeds but di... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for your post, Tom.Interesting that Rob found the ESAs to sound worse. My experience was that nearly every change improved the sonics. Perhaps because I had a good coach ;^) I am considering those electronic upgrades as end of project decis... | |
| Thiel Owners upgrading from a stock CS 2.4 to the CS 2.4SE model. sdecker doesn’t really have SE-equivalent. The advertised changes were swapping out 13 uF polypropylene + 1 uF polystyrene for 14 uf Clarity SA and 27 uF polypropylene + 1 uF polystyrene for 28 ... | |
| Thiel Owners @sdeckerNope, I didn’t PM you. I’ve owned my 2.4s for only about two years. Tom Thiel coached me through most of my mods. I replaced every part from the binding posts to the driver hookup wire. Sounds glorious. | |
| Thiel Owners @sdecker FWIW, the CS2.4SE did away with the 1 uF bypasses on the coax feeds, ie, full 14 and 28 uF in single caps rather than 13+1 and 27+1. I am aware of a third-hand report that a 1 uF bypass can have a deleterious effect on SQ (supposedly bett... | |
| Should I buy used Thiel CS5 @georgehifi Yes, I read all of your earlier post. I’m just saying it looks, LOOKS, like there are two ELs on that board. All the yellow caps are probably the custom-for-Thiel polystyrenes. On other models I’m more familiar with these were 1 uF byp... | |
| Should I buy used Thiel CS5 No electrolytic caps, all plastics, last forever (well almost) Holy cow! That's a crazy number of parts!It does *look* like there are 2 ELs at the bottom of the pic, maybe a couple more at the other end? But, yeah, mostly film caps (PPTs and MKP... | |
| Should I buy used Thiel CS5 The CS5 is certainly one of the better Thiels ever, especially regarding bass reproduction (sealed woofer) but, as others have noted, needs a lot of current to drive properly (and quality current is $$$). $3K seems pricey to me for a speaker that ... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant That’s a question for Ayre. My guess is the firmware makes zero difference to the sonics, probably more to do with the display and remote operation. Gary at Ayre will be able to answer your query. | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Curious question! Firmware H, 2017.why do you ask? | |
| See Ayre QB-9 Twenty Upgrade Announcement Anyone heard this yet? Reports starting to come in now (link). | |
| Can an IC based amp be considered 'high end'? Opposing perspectives here |