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| Thiel Owners ^^^You have to zoon in the pictures to see. | |
| Thiel Owners https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisbaia3-thiel-audio-cs-3-6-loudspeaker-full-range There seems to be a dent on the right tweeter. I am not sure if it will affect the sound. | |
| Thiel Owners What Gear is in your current set-up? DAC: Ayre QB9 Pre: Pass Labs X10 Amp: Sim Audio W7 Speakers: Home made | |
| Thiel Owners There currently a pair of CS3.6 at Audiogon. Quite tempting. Could anyone compared the CS3.6 to CS3.7? I've heard the earlier Thiel tends to sound a little bright. | |
| What is A.R.T? I have to say this is a little too much for me. Wait a minute. Am I reading it correctly? It costs $12500 per piece? What planet I am living in? | |
| What is A.R.T? I have to say this is a little too much for me. The equipment covers are already connected to ground, so if EMI hits the components, the covers are grounded to absorb the EMI, so I am not sure how A.R.T would help anymore. | |
| Totem Forrest - old but still good Yeah, does anyone know where the aluminum tweeter was sourced from? I remember I've read it somewhere that is is from Seas. | |
| why expensive streamers Same goes for cars; yeah, you can buy a car based on specifications alone, but specifications don't tell you what the leather smells like, how the door shuts so quietly, and how the engine sounds when you turn it on and how fun it feels when you ... | |
| why expensive streamers ^^^ I see that your DAC can take either spdif or usb. In general asynchronous usb is better than spdif everything else being equal - though it will also depend on implementation. | |
| why expensive streamers So, if you connect your server to your streamer using an optical cable, and USB from the streamer to a DDC that reclocks, and then a short s/pdif or AES/EBU to the DAC, are the bases mostly covered? If I understand correctly, what you have is ... | |
| why expensive streamers The sole purpose of this fifo would be to take care of the streamer noise. I don't think the FIFO (or what I called a memory buffer) can isolate the noise. I think you may be referring to data jitter - I am talking about ground and power sup... | |
| why expensive streamers The memory would assure that the analog noise and timing errors from the server would not affect this DAC circuitry. That is not quite correct. The buffer memory on the DAC is there to ensure there is no underflow - that is the data will alway... | |
| An argument for fuses and maybe power cables in power amplifier ^^^ On the other hand, on a poorly design AC-DC conversion amplifier, it will be the bottle neck therefore a power cable or fuse would not make a difference. For example on a cheap Japanese receiver, I doubt the fuse or power cable would make a d... | |
| Importance of clocking It is helpful to clarify whether the application is using s/pdif or asynchronous USB. For s/pdif, I think DCS uses what they call "reverse clocking" to minimize jitter in this case an external clock makes sense. The clock comes from the DAC doma... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? It could be the measurement was not done correctly. Here is the freq. response of the Thiel CS2.4 done by Stereophile. It doesn't look very good, but the speakers are very neutral and sound quite good. |