Thiel Owners

@thielrules Thanks for the effort to test and respond. I should have posted this here instead of the ALL THINGS MUST PASS thread. 

I played the track that was causing the problem more than 10x to investgate. It sounded the worst on my Thiel and not so bad on the RAAL SR1a headphones or LS50 speakers. Though on the RAAL and LS50 is sounded a little off.

The next day (today) I listened to the album again on my Thiel CS3.7 and this time there was no distortion on HEAR ME LORD when the humming parts come up. It was likely a streaming hiccup when the problems came up. I listened a few times today and each time it was perfect. It would have been a real irritation if my 8 month old new COAX drivers needed a second replacement.

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Good to read that this was a one-off episode. Enjoy the Music.

Happy Listening!

@thieliste my CS2.4 “Renaissance” are nearly 6 feet from the front wall. This yields the best sonics as I have the listening position near the back wall (with a large opening to the next room behind my head). I like the sound best with zero toe in.

@beetlemania Wow 6 feet that's far from the back wall, don't you lose bass ? right now i'm working between 2.5 and 3 feet more than 3 feet doesn't work for my room
@jafant  You are rignt i also find pointing straight is the best position for good imaging.

My 2.4 are 6' from the back wall and either side wall, 8' apart, 9' to the ideal listening position, and have a smidge of toe, <10 degrees.  While they're 6' to the 'real' back wall, they're 3' to 'interruptions' like an open stairwell and my stereo rack.  The room is an open floor plan to other 'attached' rooms, 8' ceiling, thick pile rug.  So overall very good acoustics for Thiels, with no reflective boundaries anywhere nearby. 

But it does create a lumpy low bass room response below about 80Hz.  Indeed, 25Hz is the same 0dB reference level as 1kHz.  This was 'reinforced' when I recently bought KEF LS50 Metas, whose output drops steeply below 80Hz.  So in many ways their bass is smoother in my room as the low bass is MIA and not exciting the room nodes.  Luckily, a lot of music has little or no bass below 100Hz.