Thiel Owners

SME is the 1st pressing (1999) 

Happy Listening!

I called Rob Gillum about the COAX installation know what needs to be done to resolve the out-of-phase issue. I have decided to use the services of a local audio store in Santa Barbara. They will send a repair tech to my home next Tuesday to do the soldering. Learning a lot of technical stuff with this hiccup.

I decided to move the Thiel CS3.7 to a new position. I now have them 2 feet from the front wall and about 2 feet from the side wall. The speakers are now closer together about 6 feet apart. The sound now is better than any other prior placement. Even with DRC I will keep this positioning, mainly because I have 3 out of 4 sources that will not use DRC. Only my digital streaming via ROON will use DRC (if I like it).

So next week is when the interesting stuff happens. Enjoying the out-of-phase tunes until then.

I also bought an CS3.7 Outrigger for the speaker feet. My 4 year old first words when he saw the CS3.7 in my office was "I want to climb it".

yyzsantabarbara

keep us posted on the Coax fix.

Happy Listening!

yysantabarbara

Nice catch or should I say good ears ,
but strange because the coax speakers polarity are clearly marked
with the red and black wires going from the solder pad to the speaker ,
and  if the crossover is like the 2.7 the negative / black wires from the tweeter and midrange  are soldered together .

I hope that wrong wiring is your problem .
Good luck and hope it's not to big of a repair bill .

Yyz - the definitive test is to make a momentary connection from a 6 volt lantern battery (or other 6 volt DC source) to the XO inputs. All drivers should move forward. You can readily see the woofer and midrange move, but may have to feel the tweeter. And Thiel uses silver solder which has a higher melt temp than utility solder. A 140 watt gun is just right.