tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Jazzman7 - sounds good to me. Shipping is problematic. I got a pair of CS3s shipped from Minneapolis to New Hampshire. Crating and freight cost around $700 combined, without insurance which would have added another $200. Let's envision a gypsy car... | |
| Thiel Owners I'll make some general comments from my study over these past few years. I wasn't at Thiel during the transition to China, but have learned some from first hand operatives. Here on this form there was surprise and disappointment that their Thiels ... | |
| Thiel Owners marqmike - thanks for the photo. I'll chip in later. | |
| Thiel Owners Yes - all Lexington boards are masonite, including all the CS2.7s. I speculate that the masonite board contributes to the reported sonic advantages of the 2.7. There is a bit of mystery regarding how the 2.7 can sound so good with that huge 400uF ... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - one of these days I'll open up a CYC 1uF bypass on your old board to see if I can tell what it's actually made of. | |
| Thiel Owners Perhaps someone on this forum knows the subtleties of polyester capacitor markings. MPT and MKT show up on lists as metalized polyester. I don't know anymore about it. | |
| Thiel Owners Agreed - except Thiel's custom 1uF bypasses were beyond polypropylene. They were tin foil x styrene film, which is close to teflon in performance. All the CYC clones were a level or two down from classic Thiel standards. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - I'll post a report after my visit there late August. | |
| Thiel Owners markmike - please post the pix and state your model and serial numbers. I might provide some clues. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - it seems that the SCD-1 is old business and I allowed him to back-burner it since I'm not in urgent need. He is also going to look at possible upgrades for my classic Classé DR6 and DR9s. I hope to pick up the Sony later this summer, if he ca... | |
| Thiel Owners Please remind me which Class´e amps replaced which Adcom amps. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - it's still in the queue. Either a long queue or slow going. | |
| Thiel Owners FWIW: That's real Brazilian Rosewood. | |
| Thiel Owners I remember here awhile back that some of us messed with parallel feeds, like you are describing. Seems all agreed it sounded somehow "nicer" and "more alluring". Seems that at least 2" and preferably more separation is needed to minimize capacativ... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - can you tell us more about your Sonoran Plateau wire?For the record, in his final products, Jim threaded the driver lead wires through silicon tubes suspended between the braces. Can anyone tell me if those tubes are affixed to the cabinet w... |