tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Biannuzzi22 27june23 "I am seeing a lot of chatter about upgrading the CS2.7 speakers. Can anyone send me instructions on how to do this? In particular, it looks like using the Clarity Purity 1uf 800v capacitors is a good upgrade? Where are these... | |
| Thiel Owners anzen - are you posting on Micah Sheveloff's Thiel Legacy site or somewhere different? I'd like to see your layout before responding. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - I have likewise not heard of any high 2.7 serial numbers. Rob gave me the 1500 pair figure and I take it on his word. I do know that by that time Thiel’s export markets were stronger than domestic. We’ll see what surfaces as time goes on. Y... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, Rob definitely had a role. Home Team Thiel managed the executive design and manufacturing engineering and execution. Principal players were Kathy Gornik, Dawn, Rob, Gary Dayton and probably some others. Thiel in 2012 was a skeleton crew and a... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob says 1500 pair. The first brigade of New Thiel had some good talent. And the new owners were trying out building on Jim's legacy. In particular Steve DeFuria had been an early Thiel retailer and long-time inner circle supporter. Steve became ... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - I can't say that I know SW's current catalog. I have mid-level SW and consider it a strong performer for its cost. Their offerings top to bottom make sense to me, but I haven't heard their newer or pricier models. Most of my exposure to the b... | |
| Thiel Owners Kimber discontinued the Black Pearl due to time consumption and production requirements that couldn't be sustained at any asking price. Ray had gifted a first-run pair to us around 1980 and later traded them for a last-run finalized version. He, o... | |
| Thiel Owners Your description of the Maestro sounds very sophisticated. I don't see it in their present offerings. Steve has told me that they no longer use individually coated wires due to centering difficulty, expense, etc. Their present core technology is t... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - no doubt you're right. Jim gravitated to the Geortz from StraightWire. I think it was Tony Cordesman or John Atkinson who borrowed those Goertz for their reviews and considered them an improvement. I haven't gone there myself because I ... | |
| Thiel Owners We first discovered eddy currents in the steel baskets of the O series. When we auditioned the phase coherent version we heard weirdness, but the phase-correct / time incorrect third order slopes 'erased' the weirdness. We thought it was mechanica... | |
| Thiel Owners The clones I described above are gold plated brass from parts express. Genuine WBT multiplies the price. | |
| Thiel Owners When you say 'nude termination' I take it to mean the cable is self-terminated with no additional hardware. Good move. But now to the speaker input terminals. Whenever there is a cross-sectional excess of conductor in the signal path, eddy current... | |
| Thiel Owners A cable note worth mentioning (again?) regards binding posts. Going back to the 2002 CS1.6, Thiel used gold plated brass binding posts with a big knurled knob. I could speculate about how that came to be, but I won't. I will say you can achieve co... | |
| Thiel Owners lloyd - I'll chime in. I don't know the HMS cables. I do know the StraightWire Octave II (now III) which I can recommend. I can speak generally to the subject, having taken a very deep dive over the past couple of years. I suggest avoiding any ca... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - no. My observation was general across the few speakers I have seen. NO gasket on the 2.7 fits Thiel’s strategy perfectly. It’s likely the paint is enough to seal the air. BTW are your driver screws magnetic? |