Thiel Owners

Sgmlaw - We were aware of the Bell Labs research, which concurred with Jon Dahlquist's exclusive use of 18 solid in the DQ10. We compared 18 solid with 18 stranded and the solid won hands-down. Cousin Ted concurred and we went with 18.

In my present work, I am considering ganged runs of 18 solid for mid and/or woofer where the larger cross-section would increase instantaneous ampacity. Also in the mix is a various strand gauge litzed solid bundle with 15 gauge aggregate size.

Straight wire does have effects beyond resistance. I am keeping my layouts linear around a central wire corridor to minimize antenna effects and stray field losses. I have various wires to compare - in the mi are single, double or triple twisted 18s depending on use.

When I bought my 3.7 from Rob Gillum, he had one new pair of 2.7 left. Might check if he still has it.

thielrules-Thank You for the lead via Mr. Rob Gillum.  Happy Listening!

tomthielThank You for your continued wire talk and its application within our loudspeakers. Fascinating insider discoveries and evaluations by you DIY guys.  The late Mr. Don Hoatson was an endorser of the Straight Wire brand. I wonder if he ever carried other cabling brand(s) in his operation?
Does Mr. Rob Gillum use Straight Wire to repair, re-wire cross-overs, drivers,  at CSS?

Happy Listening!

To clarify, in the last paragraph of my previous post I was referring to "wire", not the brand StraightWire. I meant to say that all wire has many effects and artifacts beyond resistance, capacitance and inductance. Most of those spurious artifacts exhibit in the time domain with frequency related phase shifts and distortions.

That said, the brand StraightWire was Thiel's long term wire source. My summer of 1978 was spent researching wire, which led to the ITT aerospace 18/2 twisted in teflon and same-source coil wire. As time went by, that technology and non-military market was transferred to another Florida company, and StraightWire became their distributor. Thiel became StraightWire's customer sometime in the mid 80s. One of the partners spun off to form WireWorld and Thiel sometimes used their cable products at shows along with various other brands. But the industrial wire from the factory continued to be supplied to a broad market by StraightWire. The wire I got from Rob earlier this year was that same StraightWire. The wire in the Chinese Thiel crossovers looks the same, but I have no way to verify its particulars.