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| Thiel Owners I'm less inclined to try the expensive AyreJust from the price points I wouldn’t think to match MXRs with CS2.4s, but I bet they would sound fantastic. Even more so with a Tom Thiel modded crossover. To repeat what I’ve written elsewhere in this t... | |
| Thiel Owners I have two levels of upgrade specified for each of those first two products. Hi Tomsounds like your plans keep evolving. Can’t wait for a report. Didn’t know the Cornell Dubiliers were back on your radar. Hope they don’t obsolete my RTX! | |
| Amp upgrade from Ayre V-5xe I bet you’ll be happy! | |
| Thiel Owners break-in is something that many engineering-oriented observers dismiss as voodoo or make-believe or user acclimation. From the very beginning, we perceived its reality beyond question, but have never developed any definitive causal narrativeeyond ... | |
| Apollo R + Codex v. different CDP or Ayre QX I currently have an Ayre AX-7e and a Codex and they do sound great together, but the EX-8 is better. Please say more. In what way(s) is the EX-8 better? | |
| Thiel Owners @prof How often do you swap connections? Spade connection is tough to beat for a solid transmission of the signal. Set it and forget it. | |
| Thiel 2.4 Are the 2.4s at that price a good deal or would I be better looking elsewhere?Well, I seriously doubt you will find anything new at that price point with equivalent SQ. I bought CS2.4SEs a few months ago and have been *very* happy. I was consideri... | |
| P5-xe, codex, XLR interconnects which source do you listen to more ? work on that one first...Indeed. I have a P-5xe and a QB-9 but rarely listen to vinyl anymore with 24 bit downloads and Tidal via Roon. Sounds fantastic. To my ears, hi-rez and the QB-9 combine the textures of... | |
| Mundorf MKP Audiophiler or ClarityCap ESA ? Um, yes, the 1 uF bypasses are CYC but you otherwise have incorrect info about the caps on my boards. BTW, I am working with Tom Thiel for this upgrade! My plan was to go with CMRs but he steered me to CSA+Multicaps.Meanwhile, I see zero evidence ... | |
| Mundorf MKP Audiophiler or ClarityCap ESA ? My Thiel boards are full of CYC MKTs, not Solens. The CSAs *are* a film cap, no? I will report my subjective results on the "Thiel Owner's Thread". I've already upgraded my resistors with Mills MRA-12s to great satisfaction.Meanwhile, what is your... | |
| Mundorf MKP Audiophiler or ClarityCap ESA ? That guy’s opinions and that site is one giant pile of crap And your evidence is . . . ?I will soon upgrade the caps on my Thiel CS2.4s with Clarity CSA (plus ~1% Multicap RTX bypasses for the coax feeds). | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant I don’t have an SPL meter. I can tell you that I don’t listen at ear-piercing levels. I used to use an AX-7 to drive Vandy 2s and I could get that combo to clip but only at levels too loud for me. My room is ~18x19 with a vaulted ceiling 8... | |
| Thiel Owners There are well respected amplifiers that don't double. Ayre, for example. Ayre doesn't give a 2 Ohm spec but not sure why you wrote this. Ayre specs *all* of their amps as doubling into 4 Ohms. The AX-5 JA measured did show signs of stress at ... | |
| Thiel Owners @thosb Did you receive my reply to your PM re: caps for CS2.3? | |
| Best possible separates for Thiel CS 3.7 A no preamp configurationFWIW, Stereophile’s review of the Ayre QX-5 found the SQ to be better with a KX-5 feeding the amp rather than using the DAC’s digital volume control in a direct connection. That may not apply to the totaldac but you want t... |