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| Thiel Owners @prof thanks for those links. No wonder I never saw those reviews. I haven’t read TAS in years, their credibility is near zero, IMO. And hometheaterhifi is not one I look for.I didn’t read all of those links but they do say that the sides are plyw... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, front baffle of the CS2.4 is 3” MDF. Don’t know about the 2.7, but imagine it is the same. Was that model ever reviewed? | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se I gave heavy consideration to the Mcap supreme. It’s said to be quite good. One reason I’m going with Clarity is that Jim Thiel et al. did many comparisons when picking caps for the SE version. I don’t know if they tried Mundorfs but probably. The... | |
| Thiel Owners @rojacob I intend to take pics when I build the new boards and I have several from when I replaced the resistors. Not sure where I might post these but perhaps Tom will share them with the kits - unless I eff it up! LOL | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2 I assume you mean non Thiels with a concentric driver? I’ve heard the TAD Ref 1; it has a concentric driver with diaphragms of an exotic material that I don’t recall. One of the very best speakers I’ve heard. Just stunning, but you’d hope s... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding amplification, either I don’t listen as loudly as others or your Thiel models are especially difficult loads. When I had CS1.6s, i drove them with an Ayre AX-7; 60 W into 8 ohms, doubling into 4 ohms. That amp had plenty of balls to driv... | |
| Thiel Owners @rojacob does your 2.4 have a printed circuit board or point to point connections on masonite (or similar)? The pcb version must be soldered from the bottom. Hard to imagine that operation without removing the boards from the cabinet. | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for sharing the summary of the upgrade choices, Tom.@rojacob if you successfully upgraded the coax feed caps to SE then I can’t think why you could not also build an entire new board. You must have taken the coax board out to access the sol... | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se @andy2 holco has uploaded the schematic. The 14 and 28 uf caps are in the feed. Note the SE version gets full values in single caps whereas the original added 1uf bypasses (ie, 13+1=14). The 43 is a subfeed. Those big ELs are in the shunt position... | |
| DAC's....Ayre versus PS Audio Charley had an ear !,,,,Indeed! Good stuff. | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2 lots of upgrade info this this thread also. In particular, look for posts by Tom Thiel starting about March 2018. Quite a lot to read and there probably isn’t any one post with the latest info but worth your time if you’re serious about an ... | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se After much research and consideration, Tom Thiel has settled on Clarity CSAs for the upgrade. He even has a custom low voltage version to replace the electrolytics. I am going to also try Multicap RTX bypasses (1%) on the coax board. Progress on m... | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se Yes, please share a description of sonic improvement. Nice work, though. And thanks for the pic. I suggest replacing the resistors, too. I upgraded my sandcast OEMs to Mills MRA 12s. A nice sonic improvement at low cost ($100). My resistors showed... | |
| Thiel Owners Ah, Bose! *Now* we know the rest of the story. The CS2 2 is dead. Long live the CS2.2! | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks sharing that interesting history regarding Thiel and Vandersteen dealers, Tom. I’ve read most of those journals Hardesty wrote and edited and he was certainly a fan of both brands (and not a fan of Wilsons, Pipedreams, etc). You might look ... |