Thiel Owners

tomthiel
Thank You for your continued hard work and resourcefulness regarding our 3.5 owners.  I sent a PM as well. Hope that you are well today and enjoying good music.  Happy Listening!

HI TOM,   owning 3.7's means i will not see any updates for years but it is fantastic what you are doing.  Peace Bro

Ron - your 3.7s are State of Thiel Art and I have plenty to learn before claiming to improve them. But, I already am generating ideas.

ronkent
Absolutely!  Lately, the thread has been flabbergasted by all of this cross-over (XO) and driver reinstatement/replacement talk (of course this is perfectly fine and fitting). I wanted to circle back around to anyone here changed or swapped out any Gear? Any Cabling shoot-out(s) going on among you guys?

Happy Listening!

The CS3.7 XO pic I’ve seen shows good coils but sandcast resistors and CYC MKT caps. The drivers are probably the best ever from Jim Thiel (ie, some of the best ever from any manufacturer) but the passive parts quality is wanting, IMO. If I had 3.7s I would certainly replace the resistors with Mills MRAs which are cost effective, high reward/low risk. Replacing the caps *might* be more risky but I would probably do that, too. There is a LOT of capacitance on that board, so might have to go outboard if replacing everything including the big electrolytics. I would start with the tweeter and midrange caps.

That said, waiting for Tom Thiel’s solution is probably advisable for the less adventuresome.