Thiel Owners

sdecker and all - I gave bad information re 2.4 count. The correct count is around 4500 or 2250 pairs plus around 125 pairs of SEs. Let's please reset our thinking on the CS2.4 success, it was a winner. Thank you for your detail on 611-612 as still being original Lexington production.

Tom, Thanks for the clarification. I am pretty sure mine are numbered 4332/4333 but like I said the numbers are rubbed and it is a bit of a guess. Based on the above, info they may have been some of the last made, so definitely would not have the lex boards. Guess I now have a future project on my to do list. Glad to hear the  2.4 was definitely a winner both in sales and, for me, sound enjoyment.

bettlemania, thank you for the info on accessing to xo. I will start trying to track down the parts mentioned in this thread.
Jafant, no I did not have the earlier Cary DMS units but the sound from the 700 via streaming and flac files is truly impressive and musical; on a par with my analogue set up in many recordings.

tomthiel,

Thanks for insider info on the PCS. Wondering why you referred to them as the “Y2K PCS” however? - as if there was perhaps another (later?) version…

For what it’s worth, peering thru the access port shows a Jan 2005 manufacture date on the woofer. So it sounds as if the PCS never had the coax driver from the 2.4, but that this particular one may have an “improved” model from the 2.3, correct?

I was hoping it might be a miniaturized (i.e. easily shipped and transported) 2.4 with similar performance.

Not that it’s performance isn’t satisfying!

beetlemania,

Surprised about your (less than adequately disclosed) damages, because I failed to mention their high quality photography and was almost going to comment on their almost obsessive disclosures.

The last two items I purchased had photographs of the tiniest of nicks and rubs - very easily touched up with a Sharpie. I have purchased a couple “As-Is” scratch and dent items from them with obvious damage - but even at that, it was very clear from the photos what I was getting.

Tom

Thank you for passing on your information about speaker production #'s.
I am pleasantly suprised that there were 1500 pairs of 2.7s ,
way more than I thought .

Going back to internal wiring , after my trials and errors I totally agree 
with you that the wiring inside the speakers have to be twisted .
While I can't say that the Cardas chassis wire sounds better than
the original Thiel 18 gauge solid wire ( beetle can and did ) ,
they do sound much better than the new Thiel 16 gauge stranded wire .
I've also change speaker wire configuration by using 
Cardas Neutral Reference  which is 4 X 11.5 gauge ( both polarities ) for the positive and using 2 X 9.5 gauge homemade for the negative ,
keeping them separate basically doubling the gauge input .

I haven't started yet on the crossovers except to buy the Mills resistors
from Partsconnexion because of the great sale price .
One big issue with the 2.7 crossover design when trying to upgrade
the components , to use Mills resistors one has to use 2 in parallel for almost everyone and for some reason they did not follow Jim's philosophy with limiting capacitors to 100uf .
When I replace the 400uf and the 330 + 220uf electrolytics on the
mid board because of space the best I can do is 2 X 200uf  and
2 X 220uf + 1 X 110uf ( unless you recommend 2 X 200 and 1 X 150uf ).

Anyway upgrading speakers can be very challenging and I am very grateful for all your advise .
Thank You
Rob