Thiel Owners

Duramax747 and tomthiel, thank you very much for your advice! It does indeed seem like the 5i would be wasted on my room. I’ll be sure to keep a lookout for the Renaissance upgrades for my 2.4, duramax makes them sound very very promising! 

lars888888

The CS 2.4 upgrades will be transformative. 

Binding Post will be replaced with low mass design

New internal wiring which is an improvement over the stock,

Crossover upgrades with caps developed by Tom

Speaker base plinths

A few other significant improvements I am noi at liberty to mention yet. 

I have three pairs of CS 2.4 which I will leave one stock and one with an all out version for others to compare. 

I like big clean power with Thiels as I've mentioned. 

Two amps that I favor over all other amps I have used/heard with CS2.4 are Conrad Johnson 350S Premier and Krell MDA-300. Make sure the MDA's were recently serviced/recapped. They bettered the FPB series especially in the bottomed. 

1st Friday of 2025- All

duramax747

I am looking forward to those Renaissance upgrade paths as well. Keep up the excellent work!

Happy Listening!

Tom suggested tring a bypass capacitor on the 1uf bypass capacitors on the tweeter and the mid speakers , I found a pair of .01uf Cardas capacitors and installed them on the tweeter I can highly recommend this "upgrade" . I only did the tweeter because I think these were the last 2 capacitors for sale since Cardas stopped making their golden ratio caps a while back (bummer) .
 

I’ve occasionally thought about trying something like that or, maybe, Path resistors in the coax feed. But I also remember buttoning up the binding post panel after I added dual Cardas binding posts as the culmination to about 3 months of upgrading everything except the drivers and cabinets. That was no small effort. Meanwhile, I remain really happy with my system. Recently heard $80k speakers connected to similar price point electronics and I’m not missing much. In some ways, I actually prefer my rig. Thanks again to Tom Thiel for coaching me during the upgrade! Happy 2025