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| Thiel Owners 38" ear height is design target. I imagine there must also be a target distance to the listener, as well, that corresponds to the 38". In Soundstage’s measurements of the CS2.4, they measured at 2 m which is their standard. But the height was a ma... | |
| Ayre MX-R upgrade costs? I got quoted 15k which seemed a bit steep Certainly not cheap in a vacuum but a good deal relative to buying a new pair, no? I've used Ayre's upgrade service before and I am a big fan of not having to buy a whole new unit to get the latest and bes... | |
| Thiel Owners @jon_5912 Stereophile measured the CS3.7 impedance as low as 2.2 Ohm, so even the more powerful AX-5 might be a marginal match for big rooms or loud-preferring listeners. Still, I'm surprised the AX-7 didn't at least deliver good sound at moderate... | |
| Ayre MX-R upgrade costs? I would contact Ayre's Michael Wiedmair I e-mailed Michael recently because I thought it odd my AX-5's volume would cranked down when I put it in standby mode (turns out the behavior is as designed). I found out that Michael is now doing sales ... | |
| Thiel Owners Hopefully, Stereophile will include the Coherent Source Service article in the Industry Updates section of the print version. Maybe Rob needs to tell JVS that Thiels will fill your room with the sounds of MQA. That should move him to the top of th... | |
| Thiel Owners Glad to see Stereophile spilling some ink, or pixels, for Rob Gillum!I'm assuming the "hot-rod" kits are, thus far, limited to the leftovers from the unbuilt CS2.4SEs. Maybe we'll see other options in the future per Tom Thiel's posts upthread? | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se The original CS2.4, as best as I can tell, had 13uF + 1uF and 27uF + 1uF in the tweeter feed. In the SE version, the by-passes are replaced by single 14uF and 28uF caps as seen here:http://www.hifishock.org/gallery/speakers/thiel/cs2-4se-2-thiel/I... | |
| 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... |