Thiel Owners

markmike - please post the pix and state your model and serial numbers. I might provide some clues.

tomthiel

Excellent! It would be a fine thing to have an upgraded CD/SACD spinner plus Amps.  Bill has been on his own (away from Conrad Johnson) for decades now. I can only imagine his Operation and Supply chain...

Happy Listening!

JA - I'll post a report after my visit there late August.

They have black MPT capacitors

As Tom Thiel wrote, you should post a pic if you want a good answer. Did you mean “MKT”? Those are polyester caps and are likely lower quality than MKP (polypropylene). My FST-sourced OEM boards (China) had CYC brand MKT caps other than a polystyrene 1 uF bypass on the coax shunt (also CYC but, presumably, similar construction to Thiel’s custom polystyrene bypasses).

Agreed - except Thiel's custom 1uF bypasses were beyond polypropylene. They were tin foil x styrene film, which is close to teflon in performance. All the CYC clones were a level or two down from classic Thiel standards.