Thiel Owners

Note that any replacement driver would necessitate crossover changes since all parameters affect the various resonances which are compensated and corrected in the XO. Also, that driver had some level of Thiel proprietary magnet geometry and so forth; that motor came after we were developing sophistication beyond normal industry offerings. So, let's try to keep the motor and find or create a replacement coil system.

Motors are forever. Cone systems with their surrounds and spiders are for pretty long term precluding damage. It's the voice coil and lead braids which burn out or fatigue. It is possible that we could source that voice coil, on its former or not, and devise a replacement protocol, essentially rebuilding the driver using its own motor and cone system.

What d'ya think?

Just curious, has anyOne received either Tom or beetlemania xover mod?

andy - I am way behind schedule due to competing priorities. No one has received anything. But I have all the parts and am making the new boards for beetle to populate. Not yet, pretty soon you'll be getting some early reports.

Not yet, pretty soon you'll be getting some early reports.

Thank you Tom for the update.  For some reason, I thought some of the Mod's have been available.  But good luck with your works.

Your confusion may come from the SE availability. Years ago, Jim developed a Signature Edition for the CS2.4. Most of the upgrades were cabinet related, but there was and is a crossover upgrade which replaces the 2 feed caps (bypassed with styrenes) with 2 ClarityCap SAs, unbypassed. SAs were best of form at the time. The sonic improvement is noticeable. Some folks buy those caps from Rob.

Our upgrades are considerably more extensive and expensive and not yet finalized.