Thiel Owners

@improvedsound - what a lovely playback system you have! I am honored to have Thiel speakers in such sophisticated company. I'm not sure how much knowledge there is about Antelope and Merging in the American hi-fi marketplace. I love them from the world of high-end recording. I especially appreciate the Merging converter due to its roots in the Nagra DAT technology, which I used heavily around Y2K when high resolution audio was in its infancy. We chose 24bit/ 88.2kHz because Redbook 44.1kHz rendered more cleanly with the simple 2X math. Anyhow, I love your gear and wish that you might talk about how you approached your 2.4 upgrade, what you learned and what you achieved. Thank you.

1: Hang the crossover on the outside/back of the cabinet

Interesting! That would have been useful when I was making all those comparisons. But I would still need binding posts for my Cardas spades. Oh, well, I ended my journey in a great place 🤗

beetlemania - these tweaks have accumulated over the few years we've been working on these upgrades together. The 2.4 is in a relatively good position among its peers, with its 2 crossovers at distnace from each other and from the woofer. Also, those boards I made for you placed the resistors centrally, away from caps. You might consider a through-vent in your cabinets - after I work out the particulars - to draw cool air from the bottom to exit near the top-back. More learning required.

tomthiel

Check out the Original Watt Puppy 1 via AXPONA over on YouTube.

It appears that Dave Wilson(RIP)  incorporated a Radiation driver array into that legendary design from 1981. Let me know your impressions and thoughts.

Happy Listening!

Any of you Midwest Panel members attend AXPONA ?

Happy Listening!