vair68robert
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| Thiel Owners 1500 pairs of 2.7s ! My serial #s are 329 & 330 , If I remember correctly prof have #'s slightly higher and those have been the highest #s I've seen on this forum . I wonder where the rest of the owners are ? One major thing I've discove... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Jimmy Page White Summer " In The Light 1969 " or 1980 box set | |
| Thiel Owners 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 upg... | |
| Thiel Owners 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-ma... | |
| 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 , (may... | |
| Increasing a Low output MM mdrone I am using a Tavish Design Adagio with a Soundsmith Carmen II cartridge with an output voltage of 2.12mv , the MM ( MI ) gain is 44db . I was unsure if the gain was enough when I switched from a Grado with an output of 5mv since I am g... | |
| Thiel Owners anzen I looked at images of the 2.4 crossovers and it looks like they used Jantzen Superior Z caps which measure 17 x 43 mm for the 1uf 100v cap , The Clarity Purity measures 18 x 45 mm for the 1uf 250v . Maybe the 400v will fit but it doesn't l... | |
| Modifying Crossovers ervikingo If you have room move the crossovers as far away from the woofer as possible . | |
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| Thiel Owners Purity Capacitors " greater clarity in reproduction of sound as well as improved spatial separation of individual instruments and vocals. " I copied this from the CC web site as I have been trying to think of how to describe the addition of a 1... | |
| Modifying Crossovers @carlsbad2 Thanks , I can see why you are moving the crossovers out of the cabinet . This is something I have thought about and something highly recommended by Tom Thiel , but making the external cabinet is not part of my skill set . I have p... | |
| Modifying Crossovers @carlsbad2 Could you post pictures of the before crossovers ? Thanks Rob | |
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| Thiel Owners barnett contact Rob at Coherent for instructions on how to remove the radiator. It doesn't take much of a gap in the rubber surround to cause the flutter noise . The glue I used is from SpeakerWorks.com . Also make sure that the screw(s) that... | |
| Thiel Owners barnett I had a similar issue , noticeable only at high volume when playing the Cardas/Ayers CD " Irrational But Efficacious! " before the woofers low range of 35hz the passive radiator started what sounded like a flapping noise that when away wh... |