tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Thiel placed focused attention on product longevity. The caps are high-temperature / long life, and resistors and coil are (practically) immortal. Driver tinsel leads might eventually fatigue and fail, but in the absence of extreme use or upstream... | |
| Thiel Owners rc1985 - I can offer some general thoughts. The 1988 CS1.2 is a worthy speaker, having our first copper shunting rings on the woofer and our first aluminum tweeter (with ferro-fluid). Its development paralleled the 1989 CS5 and shared technology d... | |
| Thiel Owners Richard - despite the detail I put into my own responses, I am not very familiar with with very much equipment on the market. So I can't provide any meaningful comments on particular equipment and setups. I can say to avoid any amp that doesn't sp... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - Yes, I have been working with Dave since I began this venture in 2018. We have had 3 orders in total to compare critical elements using CSA, CMR (plain and encapsulated) and now Purity - all in the range of voltages. I've also compared ot... | |
| Thiel Owners Progress is being made. The ClarityCaps came this week and are being distributed to the various collaborators here. | |
| Thiel Owners audio 1326 - I can comment on some of your possibilities. I have used the CS2.2s since 1990 in all kinds of applications; I know them better than anything else. They are a target for my upgrade activities, so significantly improved performance wi... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding CS2.4 resistors. As I've mentioned, I have identified thermal dissipation and stability as worthy of attention. Doubling in parallel is a good way to do that. However that 16 ohm resistor does not need a higher value, being in series wi... | |
| Thiel Owners Duramax - How would you characterize the sonic differences between the 2.4 and 2.7? Anyone else can also chime in too. Thanks. | |
| Thiel Owners Duramax - indeed the connector is paramount to performance. I've taken a very deep dive into signal propagation, and know there is much confusion and lack of insight in the arena. The wire guys have paid good attention to metal purity and dielectr... | |
| Thiel Owners I've got some GR Electra Tube Connectors coming. Seems like the best I've seen. | |
| Thiel Owners Here's what I've pieced together about the 2.4SE. We didn't know that Jim was dying, but he did, and wanted to memorialize this model as close to his heart. It was originally intended as all-cosmetic. He loved that bright red birdseye maple, and a... | |
| Thiel Owners anzen - welcome. There is quite a bit to unpack. I’ll make a brief overview here as a bit of an update of work in process. All of our work is well beyond the SE version. The SE substituted only 2 feed caps, changing nothing else. That ClarityCapSA... | |
| Thiel Owners Lloydviii - consider that 105s are younger than 103s. These things do wear out. And compare the connectivity options. The 105 may be the swiss army knife of players. You won't need the Darbee upgrade for use as a transport and plain non-D 105s are... | |
| Thiel Owners The 9000 is a keeper for myself or a friend. I have compared the internal DACs for CD conversion of the Benchmark DAC3, Sony SCD-1 and Sony 9000. The Benchmark betters the Sonys, but the comparison is not embarrassing. In all cases the better play... | |
| Thiel Owners lloydviii - I have not yet used the OPPO as a transport, but I plan to run a comparison when I collect the components in a worthy playback system, later in the spring. So far, so good in the quality of playback from the Oppo’s analog outputs. Bes... |