Thiel Owners

Does anyone have Gary Dayton’s email address? I want to get a pair of CS2.3 coaxes rebuilt. 

@biannuzzi22 

Contact - Coherent Source Service

biannuzzi22

as above, consult Gary at Coherent Source Service.  Keep me posted on your rebuild experience.

Happy Listening!

I was wondering if anyone here has tried using two pairs of identical Thiels set up up with one pair back to back with the forward to the listener pair? If so, how did you set it up? How far from the back facing pair were they from the the wall they faced? Where they wired in phase (bi-polar) or out of phase (di-polar) from the forward to the listener pair? What did you notice? What did you prefer? Would you reccomend it?

unsound - you or someone on this forum may have the reference where Jim suggested that arrangement. What I do remember is that his response was a reaction, not a serious suggestion.

I have tried that setup for on-site recording playback monitors with both the CS5i and CS7.2. Large rooms, placement problems, need for large sweet-spot, plenty of big amplification on site. I put a pair of CS2.2s behind the main out-facing speakers. Speakers were tight back to back, duct-taped to avoid buzzing. BiPolar (same polarity) won.

I liked the more powerful, room-filling deep bass with reduced eigenmodes.  There was also an increase in overall sense of spaciousness. But the 'sound' was less true to our remembered live-sound sources (in the same space, in the same session) as well as our headphone reference. In special circumstances it may have some appeal; but it requires deep pockets to implement. I would not recommend it for normal folks with pockets of typical Thiel users.