beetlemania
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| Thiel Owners At first glance, coils are 4-9s, best of form. Significant improvement could be made via cap and resistor upgrades from AXON, electrolytic and sandcasts.Beetle might have an opinion. The coils are certainly of higher quality construction than thos... | |
| Thiel Owners The degree of audibility of parallel / shunt / non-series feed components is far greater than generally believed. Improvement can be heard via a higher voltage cap of the same construction - even in circuits that "don't matter much". Does th... | |
| Has anybody tried Qobuz Streaming service? I slightly prefer the sound of Qobuz 24 bit PCM ("Native Quality Audio") to Tidal MQA. TBF, my DAC is not MQA'd, so I only get the first unfold with Roon. But why would I ever buy new hardware to play MQA files when I can play an original hi-res f... | |
| Thiel Owners Yawn. Stereophile amp measurements tell you the outer limits of the unit. If I needed anything even close to 200+ W at 2 ohm continuous, you would have a point. But . . .never mind. You can have the last word. | |
| Thiel Owners That’s a great, and funny, story, Tom! And a good reminder of the compromises designers must make. Throwing money at the problem helps but even with unlimited budget, consumers will not have a “perfect” system.For myself, I most value transparency... | |
| Thiel Owners Under the conditions I use my system (seldom above 85dB and probably never above 90), my amp has more than enough power to deliver stress/compression-free music. It sounds superb. Listeners demaning peaks of 105+ should probably look not only for ... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound If you’re trying to recreate orchestral climaxes in your room, I suggest you have the wrong speaker rather myself with the wrong amp. Most Wilsons or the JBL K2 9800 will play loud as hell without issue. I hope buyers of the CS2.4 are not... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound Can’t decide whether to trust you or my lying ears. @ronkent probably in the same predicament.But because you’re apparently into numbers, riddle me this. How many watts are needed to get 85 dB from CS2.4 at the listening position 8-9’ awa... | |
| How many brands use own drivers? Vandersteen carbon drivers. Thiel made their own drivers. TAD and Vivid probably do. | |
| Thiel Owners Disagree, unsound, with wholesale dismissal of multiple brands known to work with Thiels, including those with sub 4 ohm impedance. It’s complicated to predict the interaction between impedance and phase angle, never mind how the partnering amp wi... | |
| Thiel Owners I’ve never heard the 3.6 so will defer to others other than to say the 3.6 reaches deeper into the lowest octave and appears a more difficult load for the amp. Also, I’m a big fan of the coax in the 2.4. My short list of Thiels I think better than... | |
| Thiel Owners Unfortunately there is only a high-pass filter so I can’t experiment with that. Have you tried the experiment of unplugging the subwoofer? The Stereophile review of the CS2 points out that the 42Hz extension is adequate for most rock music. And ... | |
| Thiel Owners Speaking of the other thread, I shared my impressions of the Cardas hookup wire and binding posts over there:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/thiel-cs2-4-upgrade-to-cs-2-4-se/post?postid=1713577#1713577I am completely finished now! The SQ is... | |
| Thiel Owners @laserjock1963 Well, *I* pulled it off successfully. Are you comfortable using a soldering iron? I didn’t have a lot of experience but my electrical engineer father and audiophile older brother taught me some basics when I was a teen. If you’re no... | |
| Thiel Owners @77jovian Thanks for posting. I, too, have an AX-5. I’m quite certain it’s my last amp. Treo CT was the top of my short list for speaker upgrade (I’ve only heard the standard Treo) but the AX-5 pretty well crushed my budget! I ended up with used C... |