tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners All - regarding CS2.4 production variants - my data is pretty sketchy. (It helps my puzzle-solving if you guys state your serial numbers if you can.) They ran from 2003 to 2012 when replaced by the 2.7. I have records of only 1000 pair, which inte... | |
| Thiel Owners cargen - you speculated about using some Thiel PXOs on other subwoofers. Here are my thoughts. Thiel's passive crossover matches the characteristics of the two speakers (sub and main), providing real,engineered rolloff slopes just like the subs we... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Guys - I'll swing back and answer some loose threads as I find time. Last night I locked the door on my vacated Middle Crossing shop and studio. The building was sold and I closed shop on very short notice, selling 30 tons of wood and some tool... | |
| Thiel Owners Just to clarify for our readers - Beetle's 2.4SEs were late production with FST crossovers which proved to be inferior in some ways to the earlier Lexington units. The coils were not well wound and the wire is CDA102, one step down from Thiel's tr... | |
| Thiel Owners mrpostfire - I concur with beetlemaina, and can add a few further thoughts. I’ve been critically assessing Thiel speakers for future improvement - so I’ve developed a pretty good handle on them recently, additional to my lived experience in Thiel’... | |
| Thiel Owners My packed unit weighs 70#, which kicks in additional overweight charges. And the risk is high. And hand delivery sounds like fun since I'll be in the neighborhood. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - change of plans. I got sticker shock for transport cost and risk and decided to deliver it to him when I visit my brother's family in Virginia within a few weeks. I'm taking a 3.5 EQ and schematics along too and pick each others' brains in ge... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - lots of room for optimism there. Bill was director of manufacturing at CJ while I was same at Thiel. Our companies shared lots of common ground. We'll get the SCD-1 tamed and go from there. | |
| Thiel Owners On its way to Bill Thalmann at music technology. | |
| Thiel Owners Dsper- remove the screws and the xo slides out like a drawer. Unsolder all wires from the post lugs and find the drivers with a 6v lantern battery. Install a second pair of posts for the new input.Mixing amps is treacherous. Gain and other charact... | |
| Thiel Owners dsper - among my blue-sky imaginings for the CS5, you picked the one that is actually feasible. Bi-wiring is not only feasible, but easily reversible if desired. And it's quite simple; the wires from each circuit go all the way to the single bindi... | |
| Thiel Owners Dspr - I’ll jump in and ask for any and all detail you might develop around this exploration. The ’come alive’ characteristic is something of considerable note in Thiel’s history. After "New Thiel" bought the company in 2013, long-time industry su... | |
| Thiel Owners I’m not sure about your shim question. I have added shims to both drivers to optimize how the Ultrasuede on 1/8" felt works. Those shims are about 2mm = 1/10" thick. But they are under all drivers, so they don’t change relative driver arrival time... | |
| Thiel Owners I have emailed Rob. What little I know goes back about a month. He is swamped with repair work and seems to ignore anything that is not directly billable work related. Same story goes for me too. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob Gillum may know. If so please post here. |