Thiel Owners

Tom,

Now that you have the CS7.2 I’m on board with xover upgrades, especially with an outboard if you find the time or desire to take on such an endeavor.

Out of the entire Thiel line up this is my go to speaker.

Yours in Birdseye maple must look beautiful. If you ever decide to make a platform or outriggers for them let me know as I will share the cost with you and get some CAD models to for you to review before it goes to production.

Excuse me if you mentioned this but what amps are you using to drive those beasts? I use a Pass XA 200.5 or Pass Labs X600.5 with very good results.

duramax - thank you for the base offer. One of these days I hope to get that far; for now there is so much work to update geriatric products.

It doesn't get much if any better than Pass in my book. Presently beyond my reach. Bill Thalmann of Music Technology, and formerly Conrad Johnson, is souping up my pair of Class´ DR9s to a performance level far beyond their stock form. That's still months coming, but considering his previous work, reputation and what I heard last week that he did with my Class´ DR6 preamp - I have high hopes and expectations.

duramax747

Good to see you here again. I would surmise that a Speaker like the CS6 or CS 7.2 requires a large Krell, Levinson or Pass Labs to do justice.

Happy Listening!

tomthiel

Yes! a Classe' DR9 is also a sonic match. Nice score!

Happy Listening!

What Bill is doing with the DR9s is to take out the 'balancing' circuitry at the inputs which is op amp based. Its only practical function is to allow XLR to reduce noise in long interconnect runs. Otherwise, that circuitry is of lower quality than the rest of the amp. We  gain room for better (very good) caps. CSA / CMR / PURITY. He's upgrading some storage caps and some critical resistors too. He can optimize bias, etc, by committing to bridged-only operation. When bridged the DR9 delivers 400 / 800 / 1100 watts into 8/4/2 ohms. Bill can get the noise better than new. And so forth and so on. I ordered the relevant ClarityCaps with the recent sample order. The sample order so long in the making has finally been confirmed.