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 walls, or are they stretched in space? My proposed wire augments Jim's 18-2 solid in hard teflon twisted pair with an additional pair of 18-2 stranded in foamed teflon. The 4-wire bundle adds both mechanical and electrical damping for a cleaner signal at the driver. I'm still invistigating flat wire and other ideas. Again Tom, can you talk about Sonoran?

And thinking about what Galen has designed...
Maybe he could take what he has derived from his studies and apply the 
appropriate set of rules to the winding of audio inductors and transformers. I need some new inductors for my new speaker layout and watching his video has helped in the aide of my selection for the two values needed. Tom

The conductor and all its surrounding and wrappings are placed in a clear tube which is then filled with micro bearing steel and sealed at each end except for the required length for proper termination to a terminal lug. The size of the bearing matters because you can over damp the cable if it is run externally ..I know I can hear that..but taking the speaker apart several times to listen and compare bearing size over again that is a real drag but I bet their is a difference there also. I learned much from the video and now I wish I could go back in time because he raised a whole lot of ??s in my brain.

Tom

In a speaker box all the wires +and- are separate from each other and run in tubes as are the wires that run from the amp to the speaker their paths never cross. Every polarity runs mono in a tube.Tom

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 capacative coupling. Such a jungle!