Thiel Owners


Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
128x128jafant
According to audioadvisor specs the JC5 has a max of 90 amps/channel.  I tend to look at the size of the transformer and it has 1.7kva which is pretty darn huge.   

https://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PAHAJC5

Right On! Tom and John,
while it is nice to have a power amp that doubles down from 8 to 4 to 2, we must consider the peak (max) amps as well. If 90 Amps are not enough...?

Happy Listening!
If I remember correctly voltage (v) = current(I) times resistance (r).  Watts equal volts(v) times amps(I).  That means that if an amp ever actually dumped 90 amps into a 4 ohm load it would be delivering 32,400 watts.  That's 43 horsepower.  It must be able to deliver that for a VERY short period of time or there's some other factor I don't know about.  I was a math major but I've never spent time trying to understand the numbers with this stuff and it's been a long time since I did any non-trivial math.  Is it phase angle related?

i=90
r=4

v = ir = 360

w = 360*90 = 32,400

1hp = 746 watts.

so, 90 amps into 4 ohms is 43.43 hp.


jon_5912
your math is correct. I also would like to know, precisely, how Right phase angle(s) in our Thiel speakers tie all of this together?  I do know that it is related to providing an Amp that is 2 to 3 Ohms stable across the frequency range. Perhaps one of our engineer -minded contributors can chime in here?
Happy Listening!