beetlemania
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| Thiel Owners @vair68robert top nut on my outriggers occasionally gets loose but it’s possible one of your spikes is doing the same, especially if the weight is mostly on three spikes rather than all four as could happen with an uneven floor. Worth a quick check. | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert I was doing my yoga this morning and found my eyes about a foot away from the outriggers on my 2.4s. Do you have outriggers? If any part of the outriggers is not tight, the Ayre tone glide can result in a rattle over portions of the ... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? if you’re saying you prefer Hi-res to standard red book then surely you would have to compare like with like. I started with 24/192 files and used dBPoweramp to make copies at 16/44, 24/44, 24/96. I made a few mistakes at first but then successf... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? In blind testing with foobar "comparator", I could reliably distinguish 24/44 from 16/44 but not 24/44 from either 24/96 or 24/192. So, I am a fan of 24-bit files!Still, I like the idea of higher sample rate, so 24/96 seems like a good standard. M... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, really tough to get a solid mechanical connection with the Cardas posts but, if you’re using Litz wire, the tinned ends necessitate a solder interface either way. I couldn’t compare other than the OEM wire and binding posts to the full Cardas... | |
| Thiel Owners Wow, even the Cardas binding posts won’t set you back that much! I would buy them again - recommended. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob will only have the CC SAs which were CC's best at the time, for the series feeds. Appears that @vair68robert has CS2.7, not CS2.4, so Rob's Clarity SAs are almost certainly incorrect capacitance | |
| Thiel Owners I do have a question for you beetemainia and holco ,did you change or increase the wiring guage ? From my 5 March 2019 post in this thread:I replaced every passive part from the binding posts to the driver hookup wire. Binding posts: Cardas "CP... | |
| The imperfect amp: Pass or Ayre? @atmasphere Thanks for that *very* informative post! I think it's a telling anecdote that Halcro is no longer a thing (THE BEST AMPLIFIER EVER! - lol). | |
| Thiel Owners Jupiter copper is supposed to sound superb. i considered those as bypasses. Of course, you can’t do the whole board with those even if you have unlimited budget (and space). Jupiter Cu capacitance is nowhere near the values on a Thiel XO. | |
| Thiel Owners I’m still confused as to what you did when you experienced the resonance.Ayre recommends playing the IBE at “moderate” levels which I interpret as less than typical SPL for music. When I did my XO rebuild, I searched for cabinet modes with steady ... | |
| Thiel Owners 1:04 on the Ayre IBE long glide tone is ~28 Hz. Charles Hansen posted the formula on audioasylum.What caps did you replace? In the 2.7s? | |
| Thiel Owners Wow, Tom, thank you for that candid post.Regarding my upgrade, I would not hesitate to do it again. Some may consider it expensive, especially relative to the price of used Thiels, But the result is a speaker that compares favorably against other ... | |
| Amps I Like Ayre amps provide a lush dark backdrop which I've heard in no other amplifier. I don't mean they are dark sounding (i.e. reduced treble) but that the sound seems to emanate from absolute nothingness and explode without boundaries. An effect I'... | |
| See Ayre QB-9 Twenty Upgrade Announcement Anyone heard this yet? Apparently there *are* units that have been upgraded, so someone has heard it by now. My unit is in the queue for next month, hope to have it back no later than December. |