Thiel Owners

@jafant I just had 16 ga speaker wire when my system was mid-fi (B&W, NAD, Rotel, Tecnics). Moving up to the high end, I found a great deal on used Cardas Neutral Reference. Ayre really likes Cardas, so that greatly influenced my decision. Now running Golden Reference (also previously owned). I’ve heard many other brands at dealers and RMAF but only Cardas in my own system. If Cardas is too rich for your wallet, maybe consider AQ?

@silvanik, I would urge you to reconsider using lead in your home. Even small amounts of lead dust exposure has been reported to cause significant neurological developmental delays in growing children.

tomtheil

"I much preferred the musical presentation on the wood joist floor. "

I have found the same when I've tried various footers under my Thiels.I end up prefering the sound just sitting on the wood floor (actually on the carpet sitting on the wood floor).   I don't even use spikes.

My new thiel woofer from eBay came in. They have the positive terminal labeled and the negative terminal blank. Takes all the guess work out. However, it seems one screw broke off inside the baffle so yeah. I don’t think that’s coming out. Anyways new woofer in and the old woofer out. Now to donate that woofer to rob. The voice coil glue is seperated from the cone.

Thoft - a story for you. The 3.5 woofer is custom from Vifa, and built to handle a lot of power. However, the first production batch had nearly 50% woofer failures in the field. Turned out that Denmark had banned epoxy for health reasons and the substituted polyurethane didn't handle the heat. Very big deal, especially since customers had been waiting months for the model release. We got to the bottom of it rather quickly and our dealers were really supportive. Each replacement driver was sent with a copy of Michael Hedges Arial Boundaries album as an apology. Those albums were the best PR money we ever spent!

Michael heard about it and thanked us with an autographed first pressing. Great album. Sweet lemonade from bitter lemons.