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| 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| Buying used vs new speakers from a technology perspective I would not say older stuff is “outdated”.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... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel Thank you for the detailed answer. Interesting observation re: Thiel v Vandersteen house sound. Those 7 uF PURs are the first I’ve seen in that capacitance value. Will be interesting to see if the North American retailers stock those.... | |
| Thiel Owners Relax Beetle ... you're sitting pretty till that time Oh, don't I know it! I remain *very* happy and full of gratitude for all your help, @tomthiel. If someone else has better sounding 2.4s I wanna know about it. So, I was kidding but also curi... | |
| Thiel Owners in some ways the PUR (CSA with thick end caps) outperformed the CMR Seems like Madisound and PartsConnexion will want to sell most of their current stock of CSA and CMR before investing in PUR. Might be a while before we see PUR at these outl... | |
| Thiel Owners Wouldn't upgrading the 2.4 value caps to Clarity CMR's be rewarding enough ? If I understand @tomthiel correctly, the PUR is an upgrade of the CSA and the CMR is also upgraded. So, yeah, CMR would be very rewarding if your wallet is that thi... | |
| Thiel Owners @pieper1973 The 250 V is not a “problem”. The OEM caps are only 100 V. But as @tomthiel explained, the higher voltage caps have thicker film which is desirable. So, a 250 V PUR would almost certainly sound way better than the OEM 100 V Solens or ... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the post, @tomthiel. Interesting history of the origin of those 1 uF and how they were later used to improve performance of the Solens in other models. I don’t see “PUR+” on Clarity’s website. Are those the 800 V PURs? ... | |
| Thiel Owners Re: Clarity PUR, this is getting above CS2.4SE, all the more so if you also upgrade the resistors and other caps (and if you have an FST board and also replace the coils). I recall @tomthiel wrote about PUR some weeks ago. I had the impression th... |