Thiel Owners

tomthiel

The Sony ES SCD-1 is also coveted by Audiophiles. Perhaps it is worth the effort to repair? Keep me posted on your decision. Have fun!

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bonedog

My pleasure. Take the time to read through this thread, as it is a plethora, of valuable information. We have a great Panel of experts to address your needs and requests.

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yyzsantabarbara

Thank You for suggesting Warren Gregoire for SCD-1 repairs.
This is a special spinner since introduction. It is pretty cool to read over the history of this player and all of the Modders that had a vision to improve upon digital playback.

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Waveguides are attached with a 3M plastic adhesive and usually come off readily. I can't recommend any tricks. The rubber goo surround fix is good. The original goo was silicone.

dspr - Rob at Coherent Source Service could check your serial numbers for whether yours were upgraded to the "i" status. The difference was upgraded woofers and possibly an XO tweak to compensate.

I communicated with Rob and shared pics. He confirmed that my Thiel's are CS5i's.

Makes them that much harder to give them up.

Guess I will try moving them around again and start by placing them a bit closer together although I recall I tried that and did not like it.

Thanks for listening,

Dsper