Thiel Owners

Tom

"It seems that later (after TT) products migrated to a very thin foam interface that essentially collapses under mechanical load while forming an air seal."

I did not notice any kind of seal when removing the speakers from the cabinet , (maybe because New Thiel had removed them first ?)  although they did tend to stick a little the first time I removed them , I thought that they were sticking to the paint .  

Should I be contacting Rob about the availability of these foam seals for the 2.7 speakers ?

Thanks Rob 

Rob - no. My observation was general across the few speakers I have seen. NO gasket on the 2.7 fits Thiel’s strategy perfectly. It’s likely the paint is enough to seal the air. BTW are your driver screws magnetic?

Thanks Tom

Yes they were , I replaced the woofer and radiator with brass and the coaxial with reinforced nylon , as well as the crossover boards with brass because they too were magnetic . Only the screws holding the speaker terminals were non-magnetic.

I didn't think about it until unsound wrote about it .

vair68robert

Thank You -for your hard work on XO designs and solutions as well.

Happy Listening!

Thank You jafant 

It's been a long journey with trails and errors of trying to use different damping materials , wiring gauge size and configuration and scariest of all stripping the threaded inserts out of the MDF ( don't use a drill ) . But upgrading the components on the XO boards has been a great success .  While I am waiting for Clarity to release their 630v Purity caps to finish the upgrades I have started to think about moving the boards out of the cabinet .