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Duramax747, some outriggers for the 2.4 would be awesome, I do not think Coherent Source has anymore left  
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Ydjames, I have been searching for outriggers for Thiel 2.4s, these are probably what I will go with, they dont seem to be as nice as the original Thiel ones, but they also seem like they are nicely built, from soundocity.com          
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CS6 in Atlanta    
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Jafant, Thanks for the suggestions, the Kimber 8pr is almost there, they are good, but after hearing how smooth vocals can be and how well cymbals are reproduced on some of the other cables, I think i can find something that works even better, the... 
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Jafant   I am using a Legacy Audio amplifier built by Coda   Thieliste - will add those to the list and keep an eye out for a used pair to try  
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Does anyone mind commenting on speaker cables that match with thiel and big amps, I am using a high current solid state amplifier, so far I have tried   1.a cheap set of 14awg multi-stranded planet waves cables that seems to be very balanced ove... 
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Hey all, there is a pair of 7.2 on ebay for a decent price in Missouri.      
So I was changing a lightbulb last night…
LED bulbs can have noisy DC power supplies, dimmers have also seemed to cause noise  
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vair68: Thanks for the link! I will probably be grabbing all mills or vishay mills with the corresponding values to the original, but if I cant get them that link will really help!!   ydjames: Im on that sub, that system looks nice! Haven't hear... 
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There is a set of new 2.3 coax drivers on ebay if anyone is looking   Tom, jafant and beetle thanks for the input, you all have been super helpful. After all this input I feel like the best option would be to take my time on any upgrades, the sp... 
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Whoa Tom, you are a huge fountain of knowledge, thank you for sharing that information!!! Its very cool to know these are the older crossovers from the factory. I guess I should have trusted my ears over my eyes for these.I saw all the various byp... 
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Jafant, the previous owner did not mention any modding. It looks like one resistors leads is touching the larger coil in the high mid crossover in speaker 294, I feel like I should be able to notice it, music sounds very even between both speakers... 
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Here are the boards for speaker 293, these crossover seem to be built somewhat better than the crossovers in speaker 294  
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Jafant,these are 293/294  
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Hi Tom, I emailed the pics. There is a lot of stuff done to these. This is speaker serial #294 it seems like some caps were replaced, some bypasses were added and the coils are "Acousta Coils", I am not sure these are even the factory boards ...