Thiel Owners

So Tom the Thiel crossover board was screwed right to the cabinet floor? We had a Cs5 in the shop at Ovation because of a meltdown and saw the huge board out never took notice of how it was mounted..now over 20 years ago.
Tom

The CS5(&I) was the exception. It was too big for that. That huge xo board slid into a pair of grooves near the back of the cabinet, abutting a rubber bumper at the top. The cabinet base with a rubber bumper was screwed up against the bottom of the board. I think the long edges were just a light friction fit. Long ago indeed. 1988 introduction = 33 years ago.

And that crossover was like a small surfboard covered with components ..very complex it must have been. The other dealer in town
sold these and a pair of Adcom mono blocs..really when he should have had a Krell..To many wine tastings with the ladies I heard was the catalyst for the burn out. Tom

Probably more than a third of those components were time correction for each the upper and lower midrange drivers. Bucket brigade analog time delay to fine-tune the arrival time. Those ubiquitous yellow 1uF styrene film x tin foil caps were developed for the CS5 and persisted to the end in various forms.

tomthiel

Thank You for the R&D notes for the CS 2.2 loudspeaker.
In my opinion (IMO), the Passive Radiator is very special.

Happy Listening!