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| I like my system flat, no tone controls, no eq..........what is your preference, and why. Tone controls? Isn't that just admitting that your gear/room are crap or that you prefer colored music? | |
| Thiel Owners Pick a dozen brands / products at $20K and compare your new 3.6s toe to toe. I bet you'll be thrilled. Yes! There are 2, maybe 3, speakers south of $20K that I would *consider* trading my CS2.4SEs for. And that's before I finish my XO upgrade... | |
| Thiel Owners We chose the Chiquitano because of their protected generational custody of their land, factually safe from the intrusion of MacDonalds slash and burn farming. Poverty with Gringo beef practices is the root cause of tropical deforestation. When... | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se @desmond888Your Clarity Cap plan sounds good. You can save money and space by going with the 250 V version for the larger capacitance value (ie, 10 and 18 uF) and 630 V version for the smaller value (3.9 and 10). Another path to 28 uF is to get 25... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank You for the continued research and development on Caps, Drivers and XO upgrades.Just received caps, coils, pre-drilled boards, and other parts from Tom Thiel. Something of a pre-cursor for what the kits might look like. I am impressed by the... | |
| Thiel Owners Thielrules is the owner of that last pair of 3.7s. | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel Happy Birthday! All the best to you - have fun! Thanks for sharing Thiel history here and encouraging our XO mods. | |
| Thiel Owners I investigated the Vivid speakers. They are seriously competent. But I can't find anything about their filter alignments; I strongly suspect they are higher order, whereby they can more easily solve all the other design aspects and produce con... | |
| Are Pass Labs amps probably the best ever you can buy ? Pass is excellent. I prefer Ayre and ARC, maybe Rowland, but it's hard to make a bad choice with these brands. | |
| Thiel Owners Seems like an amp list might be heavily biased to simple measurements, and it’s tough to meaningfully measure either speaker or amp, never mind their interaction. Most Thiel models drop below 3 ohms over part of the audioband but what can you say ... | |
| Thiel Owners On this site many believe the 2.4 is the best sounding I don’t recall reading those opinions here but I see that Tom Thiel considers the 2 to be Thiel’s sweet spot. That said, the "hot-rodded" 2.4 should push performance to the next SQ tier. In th... | |
| Thiel Owners 2.7 as it was the last speaker Mr. Thiel designed and built. Yesterday I posted false information about who completed the CS2.7, which was finalized and released after Jim Thiel passed. I have since deleted that post. From Tom Thiel’s PM to me:The... | |
| Thiel Owners I have come to agree that quality can easily trump quantity. In my 2 channel set up, I drive KEF Reference 3's with a Pass Labs INT-60 which is "only" 60W into 8-ohms, the first 30 of which are Class A. Lemme tell you, the sound is extraordina... | |
| Vandersteen 5a ct vs Wilson Audio Sasha? at that price point worth an airline ticket or two. Yes!That said . . . I have not heard the 5 Carbon but I have heard the W/P7 and Sasha and the Vandy 7. Without an audition, I would go with the 5 Carbon over Wilson. Those Vandersteen carbon dr... | |
| Thiel Owners @holco after you factor in extra shipping and VAT, maybe it wouldn’t be too much more to stretch for locally-sourced Path Audio resistors! They are said to be the very best available. |