Thiel Owners

@sdecker
Nope, I didn’t PM you. I’ve owned my 2.4s for only about two years. Tom Thiel coached me through most of my mods. I replaced every part from the binding posts to the driver hookup wire. Sounds glorious. 

sdecker

I share your sentiments upgrading from a stock CS 2.4 to the CS 2.4SE model. Dave Garretson was one of this thread's early contributors on the benefits from using Clarity Cap OEM parts. Having spent much time w/ the 2.4, 2.4SE, 2.7 and 3.7 loudspeakers, soundstage is not a problem.

Happy Listening!

2nd Note;

I would like to hear a pair of CS 2.2 and CS 2.3 models for comparison to the CS 2.4 loudspeaker.  Happy Listening!

thosb,

Finally, and there are many on this thread who have better more experienced ears than me, but from what I have heard in my journey so far, "live" comes from tube based amplification.

I always wonder about tube amps myself. The Carver tubed 350 monos keep catching my eye.......But can they handle the 2 ohm impedance?

Thanks for listening,

Dsper

upgrading from a stock CS 2.4 to the CS 2.4SE model.

sdecker doesn’t really have SE-equivalent. The advertised changes were swapping out 13 uF polypropylene + 1 uF polystyrene for 14 uf Clarity SA and 27 uF polypropylene + 1 uF polystyrene for 28 uf Clarity SA. The unadvertised changes were sourcing the boards from FST which reduced the parts quality of the other caps as well as coils (not sure about the resistors). FST were also printed circuit boards instead of point-to-point. It’s also *possible* that the hookup wire on the CS2.4SE was not as good as the original CS2.4.

sdecker kept the 1 uF polystyrenes and used Clarity ESA (instead of SA) to replace the 13 and 27 uF coax feed caps. Probably, sdecker has something *better* than the SE-version although I’m curious to know the sonic consequences of the 1 uF bypasses relative to full capacitance from single caps (ie, 14 and 28 uF). Perhaps Tom Thiel’s trials will include comparisons with and without the 1 uF bypasses.