Thiel Owners

jafant,

The Cardas connectors for speakers (spades and bananas) are copper that is plated with Rhodium over silver. The copper wire is not silver-plated. The connectors for interconnects are made from brass and have various platings including silver, Rhodium over silver, and/or gold.

beetlemania,

What are you using for speaker cables? 

beetlemania

Thank You for the over-sight on Cardas cabling. You are running an interesting bi-wire configuration on the SE loudspeaker. How many hours are logged on the upgraded XO now?

Happy Listening!

sdl4


Thank You for double-checking my interpretation of Cardas cabling.
Happy Listening!

@jafant 

Not sure how to answer that and I haven’t kept careful records other than I had minimum 100-200 hours on new parts before I made comparisons. Most resistors have been run for about one year (3000+ hours?) other than Tom had me replace the 30 ohm with paralleled 60 ohm for improved cooling.

And each channel was built independently as I waited for the minimum break in. So, lots of variability. New caps are surely >600 hours by now, some might be past 1000. The last changes I made were the Cardas hookup wire and binding posts. The more recent channel is probably at least 400 hours.  I consider everything settled at this point although was not fully confident that 200 hours was adequate for the caps.

@sdl4

I am running Cardas Golden Reference. I had Neutral Reference paired with my CS1.6. When I switched to Vandersteens, I briefly used generic speaker wire (16 ga?) to decide whether to splurge for biwiring. I was able to get a good deal on used GRs. Almost sold one pair after I bought the 2.4s. My procrastination paid off!