Thiel Owners

Teen should be ten and rasch should be each.. ( for better reading and understanding)

Relax Beetle ... you're sitting pretty till that time

Oh, don't I know it! I remain *very* happy and full of gratitude for all your help, @tomthiel. If someone else has better sounding 2.4s I wanna know about it. So, I was kidding but also curious to hear the PURs.

I remember telling myself, when I last buttoned up the binding plate panels after installing the Cardas, that I wasn't going to take the boards out ever again :)

Curious if you have an opinion or knowledge about how to pair "main caps" if the full capacitance is not available in a single cap. Is it best to optimize balance between caps (eg, 7+7=14) or is there some degree of leeway (eg, 10+3.9+0.1)?

Happy Friday! ALL

vair68robert,

Do you have a schenatic for the CS2.7 crossover. I have a few boxes of cpas I think I could find those values. 

Good morning everyone,

… first post here, but I have been reading you very carefully for some time. 

The question is about the possible crossover upgrade of my cs3.5.  
Currently the speakers are open for maintenance and therefore with possible access to the crossovers. The crossovers are still fully standard and  Rob Gillum tells me that the electrolytics (versa-tronics) even after all these years should be ok. 

That said, what do you suggest I do: replace the caps and also the resistors currently installed?  Which products in particular do you suggest and of which capacities for the 3.5?  Keep in mind that I absolutely do not want to alter the tonal balance  conceived by Jim Thiel. What I would like to do is restore the speakers in question to their original splendor or even improve them, but always keeping the original timbre imprint of the 3.5.  

Another doubt concerns the opportunity to mount some NOS D28/2 dynaudio tweeters that I managed to find. 

The technician who works on the speakers advises me not to install them  saying that the current ones are in good working order and to keep the new units as a reserve (in order to preserve the tonal balance of the speakers that could be altered installing new drivers). That leaves me a bit doubtful because it seems strange to me that the frequency response of the original tweeters has not dropped in a speaker of over thirty 'years, if only for a deterioration of the ferrofluid. 

I am eagerly awaiting your indications on what you believe to be the most appropriate approach. 

Thanks in advance
Stefano