Thiel Owners

Test drove : corrected.

@jafant Yes i did have the Audia Flight FLS10 on loan for a week but it just cannot compete against the Vitus 025 and the Audio Analogue Asbolute.

The 2 latter ones are in a complete different league!

thieliste

Thank you for the follow up with Audia Flight.

Very impressive for Vitus Audio. I wish this brand had strong representation here in America? Will you match the CD/SACD player as well?

Happy Listening!

@oblgny , is the store Audio Den? I dont know any in L.I., JR Music World was my favorite when I worked in NYC.  My uncle use to visit the audio shop in Smithtown, but this before 2000.  There is someone selling a pair of  Thiel 3.6. Just lugging those beast back at 100lbs each.  NAD 375 is not a good match for them.  Although go in their owm respective ways, NAD dynamics have a limited sound quality.  Ive enjoyed NAD pushing bookshelf speakers.

@ydjames 

The MX-1000 is 2ohm stable, if someome was closer in NY with Thiel 3.7 I would strongly consider.  Some.say the Luxman590 works best wth soft dome tweeters.

CS2.7 upgrading update .

A few months ago I had finished upgrading the woofer board and heard some improvement but nothing earth shattering , I am almost finished with the coaxial and the improvement is way beyond anything  I would have thought possible . 

I kept things simple , replaced the resistors with Mills , upgraded the capacitors , bringing the electrolytic capacitors within  and/or lower tolerance specs , making only one change suggested by Tom , replacing the 400uf capacitor with 4 100uf caps .

What I discovered was that the electrolytic capacitors used on the shunt or negative side were out of tolerance , the 68uf cap used on both the tweeter and woofer were up to 20% over while the 330 and 220uf used on the mid was about 7% over .  The 68uf caps were replaced by Mundorf caps that were about 3% over but replacing the 330 and 220uf caps was a bit of a problem .  First I replaced them with ERSE " 5% " tolerance caps that turned out to be over 11% over ! I didn't even try to listen to them . Then I  tried Jantzen " 5% ' caps , they were about 6% over .  I listened to them for a while and was happy with hearing the improvement that the other upgrades made but it bugged me that Tom was telling me that Thiel's tolerance max was 5% and mostly within 3% , so after asking Tom's advise I went with a 300uf Jantzen cap that together with the 220 I was able to achieve a 2% over tolerance . 

I said almost finished because I am waiting for Clarity to release the PUR series capacitor ,  can it get any better ?  Some say that the 1uf bypass cap is very influential  so I'm hoping for a yes . 

Tom just mentioned that he is replacing the steel screws with brass , do it it does make a slight improvement , I also installed reinforced nylon screws on the coaxial speaker , as for the washers I had to grind down brass ones to fit using them on the woofer , I did see that McMaster Carr has some #8 washers as small as .375" OD but I think they might still be a little to large .  I also discovered that the screws holding the boards inside the speaker were of ferrous metal  and replaced them with brass .

This project has not been easy but it is well worth it .