tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Correction: Second paragraph, second line PUR should read CSA. CC's breakthrough of copper-alloy end caps came with the CSA series. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetlemania - good to see you. I can clarify. All these subsequent caps are way beyond the SE and I agree that dropping ’SE’ might be appropriate for these further upgrades. Jim’s Signature Edition was his late-life offering and the SA cap was the... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - thanks so much for posting Iconoclast. Lovely Sunday read. I highly recommend anyone interested in what’s going on in cable read these papers. No worries for those less mathematically inclined; all the concept engineering is clear without th... | |
| Thiel Owners The only cable I see on the BJ or Iconoclast site is the braided one. That is an extremely difficult geometry to get right. I suspect Galen has gotten it right, and it's worth a try if it's within your budget. | |
| Thiel Owners Galen knows his beans. His braided cable is quite similar to THAT ($1000/pair-foot) Kimber braided cable that opened my ears and changed my mind in the early 80s. Is Galen offering flat conductor cable? Blue Jeans accepts returns. Keep us posted. | |
| Thiel Owners barrygb54 - regarding your equalizer question - The Thiel equalizer boosts bass to match the natural roll-off particulars of its model (01, a, b, 03, a, CS3, CS3.5.) It is a single-purpose black box with no signal monitoring or upper frequen... | |
| Thiel Owners vair68robert - regarding your wire query - I'll contribute some personal observations. As Thiel's manufacturing director for the first 20 years, then as a purist recordist, and now in my product redevelopment/refinement undertaking, I have perhaps... | |
| Thiel Owners orchardsound - don’t take it personally - he can be hard to get. | |
| Thiel Owners vair68robert - I would also love to hear anyone's feedback about this wire configuration. Anybody have any experience and/or theoretical hypotheses? | |
| Thiel Owners Pieper - Thiel drivers are all highly serviceable. FF can be removed and replaced. Your speakers can live on. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - Yes The CS2 is the Dynaudio D28AF or later D28/2 which are Ferro-Fluid units. The CS2.4 coax (I've been told, but not certain) is also F-F Note there are many different formulae of F-F and only the correct one will keep the original pa... | |
| Thiel Owners Arvin - congratulations. The KEF Blade 2 is a magnificent piece of design and engineering. It does a whole lot right and I hope you enjoy them thoroughly. Of course, it doesn't address time or phase, so I trust that you have figured that in your ... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - thanks for the spotlight. Indeed his hypothesis of wire corrosion seems plausible and worth trying. | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - thanks for that link; those guys are serious. But their approach is different than mine. My interest is in updating and augmenting the original design for better performance and future maintainability while honoring the extant supply re... | |
| Thiel Owners In response to pieper1973’s query about home-brew cables, I thought it might be fun to recount my escapades over the past couple years. As you know, I’ve been re-evaluating classic Thiel products for upgrade opportunities and have reported many he... |