Thiel Owners

Got it. Thanks.

Happy Friday! All

There are a few posts with 2.3, 2.4 and Rob being mentioned. I had the coincident drivers in my 2.3i rebuilt by Rob twice - 2006 and 2017. In 2006 they did came back great. However something remarkable happened in the 2017 rebuild - they came back sounding so much better that I was stunned. Everything we love about Thiels became turbocharged and in addition there was now a body and richness to the sound that makes vocals and violin scarily realistic. I encourage 2.3/2.4 owners who might be thinking about an easy upgrade to give him a call.

asiaaudiosoc

Good to see you here again. Thank You for citing your experience with Rob at CSS.  Model CS 2.4 is a Honey of a loudspeaker. Flies well under the radar in performance and value.

Happy Listening!

asiaaudiosoc

I have both 2.3 and 2.4 for some time now. I’ve had my 2.3 coaxes replaced once (while real Thiel was still in business and they had production coaxes stocked), and 2.4 coaxes replaced several times. The most-recent replacements were soon after Rob was up and running. The sound improvement was substantial. Rob explained this as his rebuilding them by hand as a matched pair with more attention to detail than what they could achieve in a semi-mass production flow; the big improvements in adhesives since then; and some of his ’secret sauce’ in minor build improvements to the driver that improve its performance without altering its specifications. (surrounds? mid/tweet decoupler? tweeter dome? spider design? voice coil wire?)

So yes, I can confirm your observations. Now I want to see if the same magic can be applied to the sonically ’challenged’ 2.3 drivers!