tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Guys - your input is valid and welcome. I don't claim to have answers, only observations. Prof - I agree that the numbers seem odd. I go on what I sniff out, including Rob Gillum's input. The 2.7 uptick is due to re-emergent marketing under Steve ... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - there were many forces at work that limited sales of later Thiel speakers. The story is not easy to stitch together due to loyalties and other factors. My first direct contact in more than 15 years was in September 2012 when the CS2.7 was b... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - my notes indicate there were about 1000 pair of 3.7s and 1500 pair of 2.7s sold. I'll comment further when I find time. | |
| Thiel Owners jon - Thiel kept quiet about their Chinese sourcing. The Home Theater products has FST parts, then entire boards from the mid 1990s. As far as I know, the MCS was always FST boards. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - what I meant to say is that the transition from Lex to FST occurred somewhere around the #225 mark because I heard of a 215-16 Lex pair and a 235-6 FST pair. All the FST parts are made in China, on glass boards with CYC parts. We have previou... | |
| 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... |