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| Thiel Owners Soundstage (NRC lab) measures speakers at 2 m - 79”. Their CS2.4 frequency response looks *much* better than that measured by Stereophile. In fact, the 2.4 has the flattest measured response of any in their database (actually, there is a Magico mo... | |
| See Ayre QB-9 Twenty Upgrade Announcement I have an a QB-9 that was the "second generation" (first generation only went to 24/96 files, mine could handle 24/192) and had it upgraded to "DSD". I don't hear any hum regardless of how close I get to the unit. I'm also running a stock NUC as a... | |
| Thiel Owners @cascadesphil Have you tried the rack on a side wall (maybe with amp on the floor between the speakers) or pulling the speakers more into the room, away from the rack?Could make a difference in imaging. | |
| Universal disc players Relevant thread here from Ayre's Ryan Berry. Sounds like Ayre no longer has a supply of laser assemblies for the C-5 but *does* have them for the DX-5. | |
| Thiel Owners I posted a long version answer perhaps a year ago on this thread. Almost *exactly* one year ago (link) | |
| Ayre QB9 Twenty Upgrade Ayre implements the filters in a Xilinx FPGA, which provides the necessary horsepower. In an e-mail, Hansen told me that, during the development of Ayre's digital products, "We have custom filters whereby we can load whatever coefficients we w... | |
| Ayre QB9 Twenty Upgrade Filter settings are "Listen" and "Measure". Ayre recommends Listen for listening, Measure if you are a reviewer testing the unit on the bench (the Listen filter has better time-domain performance but rolls off the highs). I'm pretty sure the filte... | |
| Ayre QB9 Twenty Upgrade I’m in the queue for this upgrade. I have no doubt it will be worth it. I’m a long-time Ayre owner and previously had my AX-7 upgraded to AX-7e and my CX-7 upgraded to CX-7e MP. Both were notable and worthwhile sonically. I've been lusting after t... | |
| Thiel Owners Probably several hundred pairs of CS1.6 out there but, I would guess, not many 1.7. I had an early pair of 1.6 (2002) and I think the serial number was in the 200s. I could ask the man I sold them to. | |
| Thiel Owners I'm looking for a pair of 3.5s as well as 1.5s. @tomthiel Hifishark (https://www.hifishark.com/) might be the "best" one-stop online source to check. They appear to be an amalgam of eBay, US Audio Mart, TMR, and other worldwide sources. You can ... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? 16/44.1 can be amazing. Agreed, @brainlucey 24/44.1 is all any human can hear IF done well. Perhaps, but Charles Hansen noted that 4X sample rates greatly free filter options for playback.Thanks for your post. I am still SMH at the Computer A... | |
| Thiel Owners I suggest adding the second pair of posts when modding the XO. Beetle may chime in - he looked in to that with his 2.4 upgrade. My experience with bi-wireable Vandersteens led me to explore this option with my CS2.4s and Tom Thiel encouraged me t... | |
| Thiel Owners @bighempin I would desolder. Note that Thiel used unleaded solder which has a higher melting point. Your iron/gun should be at least 140 watts. Speaker should be on its back so that the driver can’t fall out and prevents solder from dripping onto ... | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2 The only remaining OEM are the drivers and cabinets. If I had Lexington rather than FST boards, I would have salvaged a few coils and, maybe, bypass caps. | |
| Thiel Owners I’m very happy with the Cardas binding posts even if it’s tough to get a good mechanical connection. Tom had me strive for that standard wherever possible. A couple of other places I had trouble: 1) connections on XO boards where multiple coils, r... |