harrylavo
With Thiel CS3.5 speakers available now for only $400 or $500, I collect them for their drivers. I think using original drivers is the only way to keeping them sound as they should. One time, I bought a pair of CS3.5 on Ebay, and asked the seller to remove and send ONLY the tweeters and midranges.
The tweeters are stock items, which appear on ebay quite frequently. The midranges were custom made, so totally unavailable now. But they can be re-coned, although a burnt voice coil is not repairable.
The solutions are 1) use an amplifier that has plenty of extra power that you will never use (and will never clip from reaching its power limit) and 2) don’t ever play music loud enough that you hear some dynamic compression or distortion.
3) If you want to follow my advice, don’t play CDs anymore either, Just stick to analog. It sounds better, and it is peak-limited for the very same reason that Thiel CS3.5 like them better: phono cartrdiges have a mechanical excursion limit as do speakers. No strike this suggestion, I was just using this opportunity to push records over CDs. Answer #2 should suffice, no matter what format you play.
With Thiel CS3.5 speakers available now for only $400 or $500, I collect them for their drivers. I think using original drivers is the only way to keeping them sound as they should. One time, I bought a pair of CS3.5 on Ebay, and asked the seller to remove and send ONLY the tweeters and midranges.
The tweeters are stock items, which appear on ebay quite frequently. The midranges were custom made, so totally unavailable now. But they can be re-coned, although a burnt voice coil is not repairable.
The solutions are 1) use an amplifier that has plenty of extra power that you will never use (and will never clip from reaching its power limit) and 2) don’t ever play music loud enough that you hear some dynamic compression or distortion.
3) If you want to follow my advice, don’t play CDs anymore either, Just stick to analog. It sounds better, and it is peak-limited for the very same reason that Thiel CS3.5 like them better: phono cartrdiges have a mechanical excursion limit as do speakers. No strike this suggestion, I was just using this opportunity to push records over CDs. Answer #2 should suffice, no matter what format you play.