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vair68robert

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Thiel Owners
@beetlemania I too replaced the posts with the Cardas rodium/silver with the gold plated nuts , a lot of work for little if any gain .To clarify I replaced the new Thiel wire and made the assumption that your 2.4se's came with Striaghtwire 18 guag... 
Thiel Owners
TomThank you for passing on your information about speaker production #'s.I am pleasantly suprised that there were 1500 pairs of 2.7s ,way more than I thought .Going back to internal wiring , after my trials and errors I totally agree with you tha... 
Thiel Owners
1500 pair of 2.7s !  My speakers are #'s 329 & 330  ,  the prof's pair are around that # and so far I haven't read of any serial #'s any higher from Thiel owners responding on this thread .  
Thiel Owners
shaundevukTom Thiel and beetlemania worked together on upgradingbeetle's 2.4se speakers so you might contact them if you are or would be concidering working on your speakers ,again . 
Favorite Guitar Solo
Jimmy Page with Led Zeppelin     White Summer 
Soundstage
Very cool speakers,after years of trying the equilateral triangle at 8 feet and trying to extend the 8 feet feet listener to my rooms max of 8 ft 6 inI tried something different .My speakers manual suggested 8 feet apart and 8 to 10 feet from the ... 
Thiel Owners
dsperFrom my experiences I am continually surprised ,a fuse !  a resistor ! speaker placement change by 1/4 inch !speaker wire gauge ( I resently doubled mine ) ! room acoustics ! power cord ! wall outlet ! TUBE ROLLING !!You have a great system s... 
Dedicated AC line - Contractor wants to use BX instead of romex
40 to 50 foot run of BX ,In Chicago BX could only be used for short runs ( 6 -8 feet )  the rest had to be conduit .So to have your cake and eat it to ask your electrician if he'll run 3/4 inch greenfield ( flexible conduit )  for you with your 10... 
Thiel Owners
dsperI'll assume that you upgraded the Mains fuse with the Synergistic fuse ,may I suggest that you replace the other 10 fuses with Bussman or Littlefuse ceramic fuses ( $2.00 @  ) .When working on my DNA-250 I replaced all the glass fuses with th... 
What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital?
At 68 I'm flipping vinyl and cleaning every record 98 % of my listening time , the only reason that I have a CD player is because the music was not released on vinyl ( like Poet  a tribute to Townes Van Zandt )or because the very limited release c... 
Speakers Corner Releases - Any Good
So far I love everyone I have and will purchase this labels releasesin the future . 
A solid tube photo stage around 1500
@simao I learned about Tavish Designs from reading Sterophile ,Herb Reichert uses it as his reference phono preamp .Reviewed 6/1/2016 . 
A solid tube photo stage around 1500
Look into Tavish Design Adagio ,tube only for high output with step-up transformers for MC .It took me 2 years to make up my mind on which phono preto go with and like you want and wallet doesn't always coincide .Guess I'm to late with my advise . 
Rebuilding Power Amplifier(s)
The best pointers I can give is to measure the components on the boardand know the measurements of the new upgrade components .And don't change any values . . 
Blue Jean/Belden LC 1
jetterCardas makes it's own wire with it's own copper foundery , somewhere in New England .