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| Thiel Owners Using Roon to explore new music and parts of my collection long neglected. Playing some Dixie Chicks not heard since I had the Vandy 2s and Ayre AX-7. Just wow! These modified 2.4s plus AX-5 are superb. :chefs kiss:Thanks again, Tom Thiel! | |
| Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... IMHO the 2.5 way speaker is THE ideal high end speaker for the majority of enthusiasts. Interesting take but I can think of some "affordable" 3-way designs that check most of your boxes. Years ago, the Joseph 2.5 way was on my short list and I ... | |
| Calling all Vandersteen Fans I use an Ayre AX5/20 with built in cross over. Off topic: I thought you moved on from the Ayre? I love my AX-5 Twenty, probably the best piece I will ever own. I decided I couldn't wait to save for Treo CTs and bought used Thiel CS2.4SEs. I hav... | |
| Used DACs in the 10k range Here is one perspective on how the Denafrips compares to a few others:https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/reviews/my-quest-for-a-new-dac-part-3-denafrips-terminator-r740/ | |
| Calling all Vandersteen Fans Don't know about the 1Ci but the 2Ce Sig II has the 3A Sig tweeter (also, same as original Quattro). See here: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=38u42p6hcui5ssvle2oafc8s43&topic=100766.msg10174...For the money, I haven't heard an... | |
| Most “disappeared” speakers. Vandersteen 2Ce Sig disappears about as well as any $peaker, even with the lights on and the signal in one channel. | |
| Clarity CMR vs Jantzen Alumen Z caps humblehomemadehifi man says they work well together but maybe you already know that? | |
| Caps for tweeters under $300 FWIW, I recently built new XOs for my Thiels using Clarity CSA. A big step forward in terms of resolution and transparency. Still, I wanted just a bit more warmth. I considered different bypasses such as Audyn or Jupiter. But I first replaced the ... | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2 I can probably find recordings as you describe but not able to compare to anything else in the near future. Any 3.7 owner want to bring your speakers to my room?Interesting hypothesis regarding image density. That sounds plausible. Are your... | |
| Thiel Owners Can’t say I’ve noticed this trait, Andy2. Some songs with the mix in one channel seem to emanate well outside the bounds of the speakers. The CS2.4 does this at least as well as the CS1.6 and Vandy 2Ce Sig II. Just earlier this evening I did a dou... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound @prof This should soothe the feelingshttps://www.avsforum.com/double-blind-abx-testing-proves-power-cords-effect-audio/ | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Not sure how to answer that and I haven’t kept careful records other than I had minimum 100-200 hours on new parts before I made comparisons. Most resistors have been run for about one year (3000+ hours?) other than Tom had me replace the ... | |
| Ayre Codex vs. Lampizator Amber II I promise you its beautiful and have run the Ayre Codex up to pretty much all Dacs at 5 k and it easily competes and then some. Jim Smith wrote pretty much the same although he cautioned that he hadn't heard everything. | |
| Pono and the Ayre Codex How close do you feel they are in sound quality?? I’ve only heard the Pono with headphones and my short demo of a Codex was with speakers.But, if you like the SQ of the Pono it seems you would like the Codex at least as much. Supposed to be simila... | |
| Thiel Owners The terminal spade is almost certainly rhodium over silver but the strands are copper, according to their websitehttp://www.cardas.com/clear_beyond_sp.phpBTW, I hear a more relaxed and liquid presentation with my biwire configuration compared to s... |