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| What Integrated Amp do You use Ayre AX-5/20. The foundation and best piece of my system. I’ll probably never be to afford anything better. But that’s OK because it delivers exquisite music. | |
| Thiel Owners @thieliste yes, I am likely missing out on bass reinforcement but with a tradeoff of optimized imaging. My system is in the living room, so am constrained to keep it usable as such. I do get some energy down to the 30 Hz rating and it drops off s... | |
| Thiel Owners @thieliste my CS2.4 “Renaissance” are nearly 6 feet from the front wall. This yields the best sonics as I have the listening position near the back wall (with a large opening to the next room behind my head). I like the sound best with zero toe in. | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert No capacitance, resistance, or inductance values were changed intentionally although my LCR meter measured some small deviations from the target values. That said, OEM caps were mostly 100V whereas the new caps range 160-630V. OEM re... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetlemania may have directly compared coils to coils I did not make this comparison as I replaced all caps and coils at the same time. Not possible, with so many simultaneous changes, to isolate the sonic differences from coils. I spent close to ... | |
| Thiel Owners @duramax747 what article? Neither enjoythemusic or ultraaudio reviews mentions the SNs. I am really curious to know what boards are in those early units! Those reviews were raves. Did the reviewer’s DUTs have Lexington or FST boards? | |
| Thiel Owners I’m assuming your curiosity is the early numbers were made here in US and later runs were sourced elsewhere?(partly speculative but also based on information from Tom Thiel and my own SEs)The 2.4SE debuted circa 2008. By this time, 2.4 crossovers ... | |
| Thiel Owners @marqmike It looks like you have an earlier iteration, relative to my SEs, of the FST boards. Your coils are more tightly wound than mine were but otherwise parts quality looks equivalent save the Clarity SAs on the SE coax feeds.If you are seriou... | |
| Thiel Owners That will be interesting, Tom. The markings on that bypass are “PPT” which I misremembered as polystyrene rather than polypropylene.At this point, I’m inclined to think @marqmike has FST boards rather than Lexington. | |
| Thiel Owners They have black MPT capacitorsAs Tom Thiel wrote, you should post a pic if you want a good answer. Did you mean “MKT”? Those are polyester caps and are likely lower quality than MKP (polypropylene). My FST-sourced OEM boards (China) had CYC brand ... | |
| Ayre DX-7 CD / DVD - Need laser head replaced - anyone know who I can pay to help me? I wonder why Ayre doesn’t know this? More interested in selling you a new one than fixing your old one? Any evidence for that? I’ve seen forum posts from Charles Hansen and Ryan Berry telling customers how to find replacement transports. And their... | |
| Surround speaker setup: disc player or processor? Rebadged Oppo? You have a different definition of that word. There aren’t more than a couple of high end manufacturers that build their own transports. Does that mean they’re all rebadged Sonys? | |
| Thiel Owners @sdecker PM sent@vair68robert As Tom Thiel wrote just days ago, FST PCBs are on fiberglass. Classic Thiel used point to point connections, with leads mechanically twisted before soldering, on Masonite. That is what I have on my hot-rodded CS2.4. | |
| Thiel Owners Did you use ERSE Fiol/Q for all 3 speakers ?I imagine you mean all three boards?The 2.4 uses a mechanical crossover for the tweeter/mid, so only two boards. The coax and woofer boards each have one coil in the direct feed path and those are the on... | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert So, you have installed Cardas hook up wire and compared it to “original” and “new” Thiel? IIRC, @tomthiel said that OEM was sourced from Straightwire (at least for “original” Thiel) but it was never resolved whether my SEs were equip... |