Thiel Owners


Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
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Bighempin - I have never seen that tweeter up close and personal. I believe that tweeter module comes out of the midrange mount. But that's risky business for a non-adept. I personally would try it in place. Your child's finger went in the center hole, so the failure geometry exists within that central area.
Andy 2 - Beetlemania and Holco (?) both reported improvements with internal wire. I have wire from StraightWire and Cardas in my comparison kit. However, the wire itself in the 2.4s is pretty high-end. It is 5-9s, high purity, low oxygen, long crystal, high polish 18 gauge solid in teflon jackets, precision twisted at 2.5 / inch. We first developed that wire in 1978 via our access to aerospace instrumentation solutions. The ITT aerospace 6-9s wire is no longer available, but current Thiel wire is as good as is available for its type.

Now, all that said, I believe there is possibly room for improvement via multi-gauge litzed bundling. Remember that a manufacturer occupying Thiel's cost-effective niche, can never afford state of the art, every decision is balanced for optimizing cost-effective balanced performance. But I will be substituting more sophisticated wire to compare its performance with stock.
I should note that in the development of the original 03 in 1977, wire purity for hookup and coils was paramount to getting listenable results from the phase coherent configuration, as I have elaborated earlier in this thread. I am very tuned in to wire, wire was in my purview during Thiel's first 20 years.


However, the wire itself in the 2.4s is pretty high-end. It is 5-9s, high purity, low oxygen, long crystal, high polish 18 gauge solid in teflon jackets, precision twisted at 2.5 / inch.
Hi Tom,

I was only joking about the Home Depot stuffs :-)
Jaw drop. They sounded, thin - almost lifeless. I double checked all the cables on everything. All good.
Perhaps the old cables need to be "re-broken in" :-)
biglhemp, I've had success with a model CS2 tweeter with a similar problem using an empty toilet paper roll placed over the tweeter and gently sucking. Not sure if the 3.7 tweeter would likewise respond to this, but I was afraid to use anything more powerful.