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| Thiel Owners 1) connections on XO boards where multiple coils, resistors, and caps come together (especially joining the Litz wire to the bundle), and 2) connection to driver posts, all the more so with the Litz (but even the OEM solid core was pretty much a... | |
| Thiel Owners Ours would act up at Kathleen Battle. I would too :-) | |
| Thiel Owners Horses can "hear" a train more than 5 miles down the track. They sense that 4Hz wave through their hooves. In that sense, I was wondering if dogs are just opposite? They can better sense high frequency sound. That's why my dog tends to act up... | |
| Thiel Owners but anybody try Acoustic BBQ speaker cables with their Thiels? I need to get some speaker cables with spade connectors (long story) and leaning towards trying these, unless someone can make a strong case for something different for less than $400... | |
| Thiel Owners We are barely scraping the surface here. The point is that the inner functioning of the ear mechanism itself is vastly complex, even before the neuronic energy is sent to the brain for processing.Hi Tom,I was under the impression that the only par... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Tom,Thanks for your detail feedback. Something just struck me that could give me a clue. I keep thinking that music is limited to 20KHz, but that's not true, it's our hearing that is supposedly limited to 20KHz. BUT musical instrument has no... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Tom,By tonality I suppose you meant frequency domain. But time and frequency domain are the same. You can convert from time domain to frequency domain and vice versa. For example, if you have a waveform in time domain, you can perform Fourie... | |
| Thiel Owners My study of audio and auditory neurology reveals that multiple parallel tracks decode the auditory stimulus, and the whole body is involved including the ears, mastoid process, sinus cavities, solar plexus and skin envelope - all working togethe... | |
| Thiel Owners Some are saying (on that thread) that perhaps somewhere down the line Jim realized it was of no sonic consequence, but kept doing the time/phase coherent design because Thiel had already built a reputation marketing that characteristic. I think th... | |
| Thiel Owners I have not used any high end binding posts. The most expensive I've used so far only cost me a few dollars from Madisound.com.I guess you won't know until you try out, but for those who have used expensive posts before, do they make a difference ... | |
| Totem Acoustic Element Metal: The WOW factor! I was thinking about the driver design and it may be as simple as extra winding on the motor inductor coil. Basically you need a way to control the frequency response of the driver. If you break down a driver, here are all the possible compone... | |
| Totem Acoustic Element Metal: The WOW factor! Per V. Bruzzeze of Totem, the Element series indeed employs the Torrent driver without a (conventional) crossover. The witchy magnetic motor assembly somehow accomplishes the frequency modulation. Before (even before the Totem Metal) I always tho... | |
| Thiel Owners a major part of the art is prioritizing the relative value of various aspects of the whole package That's true. Designing speakers is as much an science as much as an art. Unfortunately some put too much science over the art part. | |
| What does the term "Speed" mean in a speaker? I do not put electrostatic and planer speakers in the same category as push-pull standard types of speakers That may be true, but conventional drivers are transducers nevertheless - they convert electrical energy to mechanical energy hence by de... | |
| What does the term "Speed" mean in a speaker? When a speaker has "speed" it's approaching the sound of real, life like, sound Designing speaker is a compromise - some are optimized for speed (dynamic), or soundstage, or musicality. Some $80K speakers can have a huge soundstage but lack mu... |