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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners Excellent point, @imhififan During my build, I stopped at several points to compare changes. I always allowed 100-200 hours before critical listening. | |
| Thiel Owners @improvedsound My L5 inductor (ie, the one on the coax board, paralleled with 28 uF cap and 2 ohm resistor) is Erse FoilQ, 16 gauge, 0.15 mH. I have all Mills MRA12s, the 30 ohm position I used paralleled 60.2 ohms for improved cooling. The bi... | |
| Thiel Owners @improvedsound Assuming all values match OEM and the connections are consistent with the schematic, that board should be singing. From your images, I see nothing out of place although I can’t see everything. Total resistance of the coax board shou... | |
| Thiel Owners @improvedsound That looks really nice! Great job. Curious what brand/model is the 0.1uF bypass? I would have elected to also use CSA for those 100uF shunt caps but I know those are very large and expensive. That way you get away from electrolyt... | |
| Thiel Owners From Rob Gillum: “The [Cs2.4] crossover can be accessed through the passive radiator opening. The base is not removable, as it is screwed, and glued. To access the crossover, you must remove the passive radiator screws and let the passive radiato... | |
| Thiel Owners @pieper1973 The thought of putting Dueland caps into CS2.4 is wild to me. Even if Dueland makes the proper capacitance values (I don’t see anything close at Parts Connexion), the price would staggering. Multiples of the original price of the ful... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Yes, the planned run was 150 pairs but Tom Thiel shared with me that Rob Gillum reported closer to 100 pairs sold. That Mr. Gillum still had SE kits when he started CSS seems to corroborate less than the full planned production. Still, I t... |