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| Thiel Owners @tomthielI am surprised by your Lex v FST listening results. And this seems to confound the upgrade path I imagined. On the one hand, FST owners will be relieved that their sound is not necessarily diminished by those parts (good news). But on the... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions I heard nothing deleterious with the bypasses, only positive changes. YMMV. | |
| Has anyone hired cyrix7x86 on Ebay to "upgrade" their crossovers? My other question is if an "upgrade" translates to a noticeable difference in the quality of sound being produced by the speaker. In my case, I experienced a substantial improvement in SQ. Greatly improved resolution and transparency being the m... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions willing to bet $ you will pull it out eventually esp if you listen to classical music Interesting. From my listening notes in mono, a couple of concerto selections were among those where I most greatly preferred the sound of the RTX bypasses (... | |
| Qobuz. bye bye $14-25 high resolution downloads from HDTracks I plan to switch from Tidal to Qobuz soon (I don't understand why anyone prefers MQA over true hi-rez). If I sign up for the top tier Qobuz service, what is the typical price range if I wan... | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se think I have taken the maximum out of the CS2.4 I think I'm there, too. If I had ample money and time, it would be interesting to experiment with ultra caps (Jupiter, Dueland), resistors (Path), and try the wax foil coils. But if I had that much... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Thanks for the responses everyone. I think I will stand pat for now. I mean, I'm *very* happy with the sound I'm hearing. Easily the best ever in my room. Just with the downside of TMI on poorly recorded music, a problem Michael Fremer and others ... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Bypassing in crossovers makes the sound phasey and not quite right. That was *not* my experience. I heard sharper transients and a tad more resolution with the RTX.The first change I made was replacing the sandcasts with Mills MRAs. That was a re... | |
| Revel F208 Review by Earl @jafant I agree. Revels are highly regarded but my experience is a big “meh”. Even the Salon 2s were underwhelming. I suppose my expectations were too high after reading the reviews but they just didn’t have “it”. But maybe it was the Levinson ele... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions I would not suggest multiple different types of bypass caps being used at the same time. Interesting. Thanks for the comment. | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Sorry, I'll try again.Nearly all of my caps are Clarity CSAs.This includes two caps directly in the coax feed and one subfeed. These three caps - and no others - include RTX bypass.I compared, in mono, with and without the RTX to discern their imp... | |
| Has anyone hired cyrix7x86 on Ebay to "upgrade" their crossovers? I exchanged a few messages with him but ended up building entirely new XOs myself. | |
| Thiel Owners Nice, holco! Wish there was a way to compare my ERSE foil to your Jantzen. But I’m pretty much done now except for the hookup wire. | |
| Why the facination with integrated amps? For me it's bang-for-the-buck. I saved for 3 years to splurge on an Ayre AX-5. I'm not aware of separates at this price point that sound as good. | |
| Thiel Owners Thank you @holcoI was considering leaving the OEM coax wire because of imagined difficulties but your success will propel me forward. I’ve ordered a solder pot so that I can properly tin my Cardas ends. |