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| Thiel Owners Hello all, returning with an update on my 3.5 mids. I received them back from Tom this week and was able to do an A/B test with the original mids, rebuilt by Rob, and the Scanspeak 12W/8524G00 speaker, which has been floating around on the web ... | |
| Thiel Owners for those interested in my experience with vintage amplifiers, here are some thoughts.To me, the main limitation my two amps (Yamaha M85 and Denon POA 1500) is the binding posts. They are not 5 way and do not support banana plugs, and wire gauge ... | |
| Thiel Owners oblgny, mine did come with the eq, I have it plumbed between my preamp and amplifier. The preamp has two sets of pre-out, so I run one pair to eq to amp, the other pair to active subwoofer. I keep the eq button on 40 since I have the sub, I don'... | |
| Thiel Owners Greetings all, I thought I would take a moment to reintroduce myself to this thread and share my Thiel journey. I bought my 3.5s about a year ago, my third pair of Thiels, starting with the 1.2 then 1.5. Literally a week after I 'upgraded' to th... | |
| Thiel Owners Another tidbit of information. As I mentioned, Rob told me this was the last pair of 3.5 mids he can do. Moving forward, here is his response. " From this point going forward, I will be replacing the CS3.5 mid with the Scan Speak 10F-8424G. Alo... | |
| Thiel Owners Dinopau17, you got it. Messaged you... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello all, I've been out for a while but I wanted to give you an update on my 3.5 mids. Rob has completed the rebuild (he says the last he is able to do) and has shipped them off to Tom Thiel for analysis. Hopefully this effort will yield a suit... | |
| Thiel Owners Meanwhile, back in 3.5 land....So I collected the components from the parted out 3.5 from our Long Island friend (thanks again, btw!) and I'm ready to ship the mids to Rob for a rebuild. So my question (TomThiel), would there be any value to redi... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks @tomthiel, I appreciate your words. I do want to keep the 3.5s, and I would hate to see them fall out of favor because of lack of replacement components. I have the curves of the common replacements, and maybe the original (see my post ab... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy2, I understand that. My point is how close is close enough? Do we know there is absolutely nothing out there that will be close to the original mid, so much so that using the closest aftermarket driver will be obnoxious? I know it won't be... | |
| Thiel Owners Oblgny, pm sent. I'm close enough to swing by! | |
| Thiel Owners ok, guess I should just relegate the 3.5s with non-original drivers to my garage. Seriously? I'm looking to find the best replacement drivers (if the Scanspeak pair I have are not the closest). Will I find the exact replacement I need that will... | |
| Thiel Owners Unfortunately a rebuild of 3.5 drivers isn't always an option. Mine came with replacement mids (mentioned above) and the originals are nowhere to be found. So I would like to find a replacement that is close in spec to the original (which mine m... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, will do. I'll post the analysis on my website, which I will link to once I complete it. | |
| Thiel Owners I think I may have found something here. Maybe someone could take a look and see if this could be the original mid for the 3.5, Scanspeak 13M/8640 . Here is a link to the spec sheet, https://www.scan-speak.dk/datasheet/archive/13m-8640-00.pdfOr, t... |