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| Thiel Owners I have exchanged a few e-mails with Rob Gillum re: CS2.4 mods. The short of it is he has kits to upgrade CS2.4 crossover to CS2.4SE equivalent but not an upgrade path for CS2.4SE. He did supply me with a schematic, so I will strike out on my own i... | |
| Thiel Owners The current behavior of your Ayre is of interest. But, more power produces an effortless transient attack that really makes music work emotionally. To the best of my knowledge, Ayre, Theta and, maybe Dartzeel are the only manufacturers of SS ... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant The Ayre has plenty of balls for my room (18 x 19 x 8-12) and listening tastes. The "VGT" volume control has 46 1.5 dB steps and I usually listen at a 20-24 when I have the house to myself, maybe 26-28 if I want some rowdy rock. The highes... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the rant! There are further involvements and interactions resulting from coherence that relate to the amplifier discussion above and many more aspects of sonic performance. In business it is impolite to blame the upstream signal cha... | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here The MBL omnis are peerless for disappearing and creating a 3 dimensional sonic image. Absolutely spooky, and ultimately the most realistic presentation within their frequency range I've only heard MBLs once, at RMAF. They sounded good to my e... | |
| Thiel Owners popularly-held fallacy that phase and time information don't matter or can be misrepresented in test design is that such measurement techniques are given undue validity by most Hi Tom, are you referring specifically to Stereophile's step respo... | |
| Thiel Owners It's all he can do with his limitations and budget. He used to acknowledge the extra problems for measuring Thiels, Vandersteens, et al. but not for many years. BTW, I'm NOT defending Stereophile! | |
| Thiel Owners Stereophile can't or won't measure Thiel's at the appropriate 3 meters. It makes sense that JA measures from the same distance (ie, standard) for everything but he has to be close (50") using his "quasi-anechoic" conditions to avoid early reflec... | |
| Thiel Owners I heard the Ayre integrated with the 3.7s Curious if this was the AX-7 (60 W at 8 Ohm) or AX-5 (125 W at 8 Ohm)? | |
| Thiel Owners Stereophile's measurements suggest that the AX-5 prefers to work above 4 Ohms. Hmm, must be all that Cardas wiring ;^)Looks to me that it behaves very well into a 4 Ohm load. These would be good measurements for an amp *with* negative feedback h... | |
| Thiel Owners IME there are very few integrated amps that are really ideal for most Thiel’s. I'm getting superb results with my Ayre AX-5. On one hand, it is the only amp I've heard with the CS2.4SE. But on the other, I'm getting most of the SQ of the very ... | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here both the 2.3's and 2.4's drop below 3 Ohms. From Stereophile's CS2.3 measurements: The Thiel featured above-average sensitivity, at an estimated 90.5dB(B)/2.83V/m. However, like all Jim Thiel designs, it is quite a demanding load for an ampli... | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here @mapman Hi-fi shark shows CS2.3 available on audiogon for $1500 or on US Audiomart for $1000. If this is your budget, I would get one of these and see about a "hot-rod" kit from Rob Gillum. | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here @prof I would love to hear your 2.7s, My only audition with 3.7 was in the Rowland room at RMAF a few years back. Really good stuff. I would like to hear them with Ayre or ARC.One thing I didn't write is that I think the Sig IIs soundstage pretty ... | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here Vandy’s are more forgiving of amplification. I think that's probably true for the lower end Vandys because the Thiels are more resolved and transparent. Ie, upstream problems are more readily revealed. That probably changes for the carbon diaphr... |