Thiel Owners

beetlemania

Thank You for the over-sight on Cardas cabling. You are running an interesting bi-wire configuration on the SE loudspeaker. How many hours are logged on the upgraded XO now?

Happy Listening!

sdl4


Thank You for double-checking my interpretation of Cardas cabling.
Happy Listening!

@jafant 

Not sure how to answer that and I haven’t kept careful records other than I had minimum 100-200 hours on new parts before I made comparisons. Most resistors have been run for about one year (3000+ hours?) other than Tom had me replace the 30 ohm with paralleled 60 ohm for improved cooling.

And each channel was built independently as I waited for the minimum break in. So, lots of variability. New caps are surely >600 hours by now, some might be past 1000. The last changes I made were the Cardas hookup wire and binding posts. The more recent channel is probably at least 400 hours.  I consider everything settled at this point although was not fully confident that 200 hours was adequate for the caps.

@sdl4

I am running Cardas Golden Reference. I had Neutral Reference paired with my CS1.6. When I switched to Vandersteens, I briefly used generic speaker wire (16 ga?) to decide whether to splurge for biwiring. I was able to get a good deal on used GRs. Almost sold one pair after I bought the 2.4s. My procrastination paid off!

beetlemania,

Thanks for the cable info!

With regard to Cardas cables, it looks like a number of Thiel owners are using the somewhat "warmer" cables such as Golden Reference among the legacy cables or Clear Reflection among the newer "Clear" series cables. In terms of interconnects specifically, the only IC I've tried from the Clear series is Clear Sky, which is too bright in my system. For my ears, the less expensive Parsec is a better match than Clear Sky, and I would expect Clear Reflection to be even better based on ronkent's comments above. 

*bites lip*