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| Thiel Owners Here’s an update on my CS2.4SE crossover upgrade project, including an update on Tom Thiel’s hot-rodding intentions. I’ve been PMing Tom for the past several weeks. He is directing most of my decisions and I’m providing him feedback as a beta-test... | |
| Thiel Owners I need to turn up the volume to get a decent ‘clarity’ from them. Could be many things including your listening preferences. Could be that is the sweet spot for your gear. I’m running an Ayre AX-5 which has the same signal/noise ratio regardless ... | |
| Thiel Owners Danged tricky to respond to negative reviews if you're a manufacturer. Best just to cut your losses especially with someone like JGH. IIRC, Holt gave a tepid review to one of John Curl's designs (which was other wise widely praised) and it pretty ... | |
| PS Audio or Ayre? Been running Ayre gear for a long time, no issues, sounds superb. My only need for service was to take advantage of their upgrade program. Great communication and fair price. If they upgrade a product you can get your unit upgraded to current spec... | |
| DeVore Gibbon X v. Vandersteen Quattro Wood CT w/Ayre AX5/20 two VERY different sonic approaches. I've never heard a DeVore but they consistently receive positive reviews. But, yeah, Richard Vandersteen and John DeVore are near polar opposites regarding their approach to speaker design! | |
| DeVore Gibbon X v. Vandersteen Quattro Wood CT w/Ayre AX5/20 The AX-5 is an integrated amp. Vandersteen's external filter, applied between the pre-amp and amp, cannot be used with integrateds. You need Ayre to install an identically performing filter between the pre-amp and amp sections. They can also remov... | |
| DeVore Gibbon X v. Vandersteen Quattro Wood CT w/Ayre AX5/20 I've not heard any of these, sorry (other than non-CT Quatro). Just stopping by to point out that the AX-5 Twenty should be more than adequate for 5A Carbon. As with the Quatro, the powered sub-woofers will relieve the amp of those more difficult ... | |
| Still looking for speakers in the 10-20,000 range My short list in this price range would include the Vandersteen Treo CT, Quatro CT, and Vivid B1. Another interesting option is used Thiel CS2.4 or, better, CS3.7. Tom Thiel is engineering updated crossovers for "legacy" Thiels and these will be s... | |
| Amps for Vandersteen 3a Sigs ARC and Ayre sound great with Vandies | |
| Ideas on amp for Thiel I have been using a Parasound JC1 I've not heard it but it's said to be a good one. Hard to go wrong with a John Curl design. Sometimes, though, we audiophiles get itching for something new and different, closer to our own idea of musical perfec... | |
| Ideas on amp for Thiel I recommend taking a look thru' the "Thiel owners thread". There are many suggestions for amps, including some posts by Tom Thiel. The short of it is don't skimp on power (Thiel recommended at least 100+ W for most models and Tom Thiel prefers muc... | |
| Thiel Owners At that point the sound changes a bit from the reflections from the pillow around my ears, similar to when I introduce some more room reflection by moving my curtains off the side walls near the speakers. I am certain that my ears relative to... | |
| Thiel Owners Lafuma - I have two of those, mesh versions, that I use in the yard during summer. Fantastic for taking a nap in the shade!Last night I was using a wooden low-rider style. I kept adding padding until my ears were in the range 32-36. I thought that... | |
| Thiel Owners my ears are about 7'10" from the coaxes My ears were just a hair closer than 8' when I was on the lower chair. Previously I tried the couch closer, also with my ears about 8' away from the coaxes, but this was the first time I really experiment... | |
| Thiel Owners Had the house to myself tonight and not only played the SEs loudly but played with listening position. Soundstage's measurements were at a manufacturer's recommended 30": https://www.soundstage.com/measurements/thiel_cs24/With the spikes and outri... |