desmond888
if you are still around- give me an update? Happy Listening!
After much research and consideration, Tom Thiel has settled on Clarity CSAs for the upgrade.I think the decision probably comes down to cost/performance ratio. If you were to do the upgrading yourself, I would highly recommend something like Mundorf Supreme or some of Jantzen high end caps. He even has a custom low voltage version to replace the electrolytics. My guess is the electrolytics caps are in the shunt signal path so it may not be critical. Also, they tend to be of very high value (like 50uf or 100uf higher). So it may be expensive to replace them with poly cap. For example, a 100uf Clarity CSA cap is about $100 dollars. |
The original CS2.4, as best as I can tell, had 13uF + 1uF and 27uF + 1uF in the tweeter feed I have not seen the xover in person myself (though hopefully soon), but does anyone know which one is in series and which is in shunt? The caps in series make a lot more difference in sound quality. It may not be worth it to upgrade the one in shunt since the improvement is minimal. |
More pictures, The picture of the xover seems to show the binding posts are at the bottom of the cabinet. As far as I know, all Thiel CS2.4s have the binding posts at the back of the cabinet. |