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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners Re: Wilson Audio, IMO, their cabinets are some of the best out there although I’m not a fan of the drivers. I’ve heard MAXX, W/P 7 and 8, and Sasha. One thing they maybe do better than any any other I’ve heard is create a sense of hall space on li... | |
| Thiel Owners 1: Hang the crossover on the outside/back of the cabinet Interesting! That would have been useful when I was making all those comparisons. But I would still need binding posts for my Cardas spades. Oh, well, I ended my journey in a great place 🤗 | |
| Is it good to upgrade the crossovers in your speakers? I replaced *everything* in my Thiel CS2.4s except the cabinets and drivers. Sounds much better than original. But it was a lot of work and expense. And fraught with the possibility that I would screw it up. Important to match values of original pa... | |
| Thiel Owners @improvedsound your revised inductor layout looks much better. Nice work. | |
| Thiel Owners @improvedsound Wow, that outboard cabinet is really impressive! The attention to detail off the charts. I see you put aluminum cooling fins on the bigger resistors. Tom had me try a similar cooling mechanism in my build. But it seemed to produce... | |
| Thiel Owners Ah, we were talking about different things. Internet conversations can be challenging. Believe me, I’ll never accuse you of under powering your Thiels. And I am certain I’m not under powering mine regardless of any measurements you share. I g... | |
| Thiel Owners The “dynamic power” tests are sine-waves (or square-waves), not random. These are much closer to, you know, actual music than steady state signals. I wish Stereophile had kept that in their bag. >>>doesn't drop below 4 Ohm Excuse me? ... | |
| Thiel Owners Keep in mind @unsound listens very loudly, peaks at 105 dB. Most Thiels are certainly going to need a boatload of power 2-4 ohms to reach that level. If I had that listening preference, I would pick different speakers. If you listen to Thiels at ... | |
| Buying used vs new speakers from a technology perspective I would not say older stuff is “outdated”. There are many classic speakers 20, 30 years old that would make me happy. But also true that technology marches on. Coils, resistors, and, especially, capacitors are better than ever. Drivers are som... | |
| Thiel Owners I see MRA-12 12 Ohm on Sonic Craft and Parts Connexion websites ??? If *I* was going to spend $25 per resistor, I would get Path and put them only on the coax feeds. I recall looking into this and some of the values are not available in single r... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel thanks for the information. Heat management was definitely on your radar when I did my build. You’ll recall an early solution that we abandoned. But it sounds like you continued to work things out. I hope you can share this with the worl... | |
| Thiel Owners Nice tweak, @tomthiel Curious to hear the back story on how you discovered that. @pieper1973 you have CS2.4, right? Why do you want 12 ohms? Also, I forgot to mention one of the Mundorf lines is comparable to Mills . . . It’s a re-badged Ohmite. | |
| Thiel Owners @pieper1973 Are you in the US? Sonic Craft is your friend. They stock MRA-12s in all the values used in the CS2.4 although you do have to mix and match the old Mills (brown body) with the newer Vishay-Mills (black body). Fast shipping, fair pric... |