Thiel Owners

I like spade connectors.

Yikes,

Had someone over auditioning a turntable I was selling.  Playing through my Thiel 2.7s.    He put on Wagner and then Also Sprach Zarathustra with a crazy amount of bass from an LP.  I was sure at one moment when the low organ peaked I heard a crackle, which I presumed came from my speakers.

Worried about damage (thank goodness I now have spare drivers!).

Though playing some dance music with really low bass afterwards, everything seems fine.

tomthiel, since you are here....do you have any hunch/insight as to whether the speakers likely survived ok given the above description?

Thanks!

this should prove interesting.   i sometimes get a crackle when i play the cut Gaia from James Taylors hourglass.   i call it the system destroyer

The most common oddity from a woofer is the bottoming of the suspension: the spider hits the basket plate. Thiel's short coil is out of harm's way from bottoming on the back plate. The voice coil adhesive is high-temperature. So, unless you overheat to the point of burning out the voice coil, most noises are transient and do no harm.

However, one can hope that your experience might help you set future limits. Drivers do burn out.