Thiel Owners

Tom , beetle and pieper

Wouldn't upgrading the 2.4 value caps to Clarity CMR's be rewarding enough  ?

duramax

I will be installing a Clarity CMR 1.5uf  , a MR 8.2uf on and a Mundorf 68uf electrolytic on the woofer bd. I also got one of those for the tweeter bd.  , If parts connextion has 8 Mundorfs in stock I will be replacing the 400uf topcon with 4 of the 100uf's on the mid bd. , Space is tight but I think I'll be using CMR 1uf on both the tweeter and mid boards as soon as they have another 20% off sale . I haven't found a small enough size electrolytic to replace the ERSE pulseX 15uf's .

Wouldn't upgrading the 2.4 value caps to Clarity CMR's be rewarding enough  ?
 

If I understand @tomthiel correctly, the PUR is an upgrade of the CSA and the CMR is also upgraded. So, yeah, CMR would be very rewarding if your wallet is that thick. In early discussions with Tom, I advocated using CMR at least as bypasses. Every report I’ve read indicated better sonics from CMR compared to CSA. Getting full capacitance, however, in CMR for a Thiel XO would be wallet crushing. Tom gently steered me to CSA which is more in line with the Thiel ethos regarding performance/value. Tom had CMR that I could have auditioned as the 1% bypasses on the coax feeds but I was exhausted of comparisons by that time and I was already thrilled with the sonics from CSA bypassed with Multicaps.

So, PUR is an improved CSA at about 20% added cost. CMR is probably still better than PUR? But a 10 uF CSA 630 V is $22.13 at Parts Connexion whereas the same in CMR is $91.78. So, if PUR gets you most of CMR sonics at a fraction of the price . . .

Beetle 

Thanks , I haven't looked at Clarity's web site for a few months , I now see the PUR and I like the diameter size of the 1uf , So far it's not available at parts connexion .

David Garretson is the US distributor .

2nd

David Garretson is the Man for all things ClarityCap.

Happy Listening!

Beetle and Rob - In my conversations with DG, the CMR thing was problematic in that in some ways the PUR (CSA with thick end caps) outperformed the CMR. Dave was instrumental in pushing CC to develop the PUR+, which is a CMR with thick end caps. FInalization and pricing has taken forever. I'll get that pricing and post some examples here for reference.