Thiel Owners

@jafant 

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3.7s have the crossover housed in a little compartment in the bottom separate from the main box.  Thiels are "small signal systems" but they're so good at it.  My guess is that nobody alive today could design a better version of the 3.7s for anywhere near the price.  

Would it be worth changing crossovers after 10+ years ?

My 3.7s are from 2011 and i’m wondering if i should order new crossovers from Rob.

jon_5912 - I wholeheartedly agree. Jim not only was a master of his design craft, he applied tons of time to evaluating each component to identify where costs could be shaved without sacrificing performance. His performance / cost ratio was amazingly high - there's nothing superfluous and nothing dragging down the net result.

To put some practicals around that, in his last years, Thiel looked long and hard for someone to take on his role in the company. Serious, multi-pronged search, to no avail. One big disconnect was finding anyone who 'got' the time-phase coherence thing to the point of cooperating, Another was finding someone willing to slog through the value engineering. It would be easy to double the cost with very little performance advancement.