Thiel Owners

In most all applications I never liked the addition of bypass caps especially those on speakers. At one Thiel dealer in 80s we did a comparison of bypass caps on and off the result was they were left off.  For what its worth 3 of the 4 listeners on that day.continued on in the business at least one to this day and still dug in. Tom D

Tom T. & Duramax747

You got me rethinking the shunt circuit on the 2.7 , so I'm sticking with 

the 220uf  6% ERSE and the 330uf 10% changing it from a Topmay ? %

to an ERSE , I was thinking 2 x 220uf 6% and 110uf 6% .

But I will be changing the 400uf ? % Topmay to 2 x 200uf 6% ERSEs .

I also ordered new 6 x 15uf 400V PulseX caps up from 250V .

Thanks again for all your insight .

Rob

vair68robert,

Please let us know what the results turn out to be. 

@tomthiel 

Thank you for the detailed answer. Interesting observation re: Thiel v Vandersteen house sound.

Those 7 uF PURs are the first I’ve seen in that capacitance value. Will be interesting to see if the North American retailers stock those. In the meantime it looks like @pieper1973 has a lead on getting the 14 and 28 in single caps.

If I ever make any further mods it will probably be to try an ultra bypass (eg, Jupiter copper foil), Path graphite resistors in the coax feed path (really tough to get the correct values at all positions), or, if your reports are over the moon, PUR in the coax feeds. Regardless, I’m sitting on some tricked-out, sweet-sounding CS2.4s.

Good day to you all..

I'm having a problem getting my hands on Mills resistors 12 Ohm @12W.

The sender has given me a very long list of other brands..

Anybody here recommend a substitute for the mills at same price range and sonic performance?

Thank you

 Pieter