Thiel Owners

brettmcee,

I just did the same thing purchased from Rob and have an extra set of Tweeter/mids I may part with. 
I'm going to refinish the cabinet and make them look current and new. I'm going to machine a pair of custom outriggers for them also. 

What color/finish are yours?

gs5556- yes the passive screws lock the radiator to the baffle, and must be tight. And yes, they do come loose with vibration. You might try some removable Locktite, etc. or snug them every month or curse them, but that probably won't help.

@vair68robert 
No capacitance, resistance, or inductance values were changed intentionally although my LCR meter measured some small deviations from the target values. That said, OEM caps were mostly 100V whereas the new caps range 160-630V. OEM resistors were 10W, Mills are 12W. I think one, if not both, foil coils in the feed positions were rated different AWG than OEM air cores. And the FST hookup wire appeared to be 18 gauge throughout whereas the Cardas replacements were various combinations of 18 and 15 gauge depending on in/out and coax/woofer.

Tom Thiel cautioned me to check total resistance of the boards. I did not do this before replacing the sandcast resistors but one copy of the layout I have indicates total resistance of the 2.4 coax filter should be, IIRC, 31.6 Ohms and the woofer filter is nearly a flow through. My LCR meter measured resistance, of the final boards, within 0.1 Ohms of those values.

yyzsantabarbara

Good to read that Tidal was the culprit. Servers and Steamers do not sound "right" to my ears.

Happy Listening!

Listened to the section on qobuz at modest volume and was not able to identify any distortion.