Thiel Owners

prof - your philosophical base leaks through. Isn't it a joy to pursue things as far back to first principles as we can? Kierkegaard - Heidegger were my focus.

Reveneering with any clamping method would bow the panels inward and not work well. But you could use pressure sensitive adhesive backed veneer.  A more likely solution would be to strip the finish (Lex is nitrocellulose lacquer, I believe Heinl is also) with citrus stripper and then scrape, sand and refinish to order. The veneer started out at 0.025" thick minus production sanding of about half that thickness. So be careful.

And keep up the good work. You might expound those emperical virtues you referenced.

Tom,

Heidegger!  Yikes, a tough read!

Yes, I love digging down in to assumptions, axioms.   It's become a reflexive habit for me when proposing any claim or argument that I first check myself for special pleading and consistency, seeing as far as I can in many directions whether the argument upsets any apple carts in my own philosophical structure.   I may be wrong...but after many years I'm pretty confident in being consistent . :-) .  Unfortunately I find attempts at arguments that are nuanced in the way philosophy often demands, often fall on deaf ears, and one faces a lot of straw-manning of one's position.   When you even question someone's firm belief in a phenomenon, they seem to presume an opposite position of firmness to you.  Hence any nuanced case for a skeptical - but not decided! - position is just ignored and doubt is characterized as dogmatism.   Makes conversation about assumptions pretty tough.  (But then, that's the nature of challenging assumptions in the first place).

Anyway, 

Thanks very much for the info on altering the Thiel 02s.  I'm not handy at all with such things and would have a professional furniture refinisher I've used before.  If I go ahead, I'll keep the info and suggestions you've given as a helpful note.

prof - the whole bit of identifying and challenging assumptions is at the core of progress. In a scientific / research based proposition like Thiel Audio, we did it every day to ascertain that we were true to our vision, rather than believing accepted orthadoxy. It was so painfully interesting to see the new owners do the opposite, to mine any perceived values for assumed advantage. Their first sales manager, Steve DeFuria, an industry friend and long-time Thiel dealer, tried to include me in the realignment / assessment discussions. But ownership was not interested in "the past", which is of course a mis-assumption of what I would bring to the table. They got it wrong at every turn. We'll see if we can collectively keep an ember alive and build some joy around the campfire.

tomthiel
the ember is very well and alive indeed. This campfire is blazing!
Keep those wonderful memories and backstories a comin'.


Happy Listening!

I've been struggling along trying to absorb as much as I can from the great discussion thus far, and the campfire is indeed blazing!
 I'm remembering my first Thiel, which was an 03A. I bought them along with a PS Audio Elite, both of which I kept for many years and lots of moves. 
Having sold all my HT and 2 channel stuff, I'm starting over in a new smaller place. However, I seem to have a good sized listening room, but with a towering cathedral ceiling. I've been counseled in this forum to abandon thoughts of a 1.5 or 1.6, so was about to settle on a pair of 3.5's with the equalizer. But wait-there suddenly appears on the horizon a pair of CS 7's. For a very good price. And he'll even ship them! Please tell me they are too big. The only Thiels I have not owned are the 7 series and the 1 series. The price is less than a 2.4 and close to the last pair of 2.3's I saw listed. ...