Thiel Owners

My early plans were influenced by some other threads here regarding aftermarket caps and, more substantially, by Tom Thiel's comments here. But other than, maybe the Mills MRAs, all of the current plans and component choices are from the mind of Tom.

I’m getting close to building the new boards. These will include Clarity CSAs replacing all extant caps, including eletrolytics. Tom has a custom voltage for some of these to save space and expense. My coax feed caps will include Multicap RTX bypass at about 1% of main cap capacitance. Resistors will be the Mills; I’m already running these and you can read my report in this thread maybe May, 2018. My XOs were sourced in China and the coils are suspect, so these will be replaced, probably foil in the coax feed. PCB will be replaced with point to point on masonite. Tom has written other details just a few days ago regarding his idea to provide cooling for resistors.

......I think many of us love our Thiel speakers as that entire package, not just the sound but what the speakers represent in terms of their goal and the engineering talent they represent. 

Prof, your statement is the best summarization of my thinking about Thiel. For this reason I spent a lot of time to find my 3.6s in perfect condition and with the unique aim to keep them forever, a true artwork to me.

Happy Friday- All.

beetlemania

Thank You for the update. Looking forward to a working XO model.
Hope you are having fun during this research process. It is going to pay-off big time.  Happy Listening!

marqmike

Very interesting development.  Perhaps Mr. Rob Gillum could shine a light on this subject.  Feel free to send him an email, at the very least, he his quite responsive via phone as well.  Keep me posted should you decide to reach out and touch him.    Happy Listening!