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| Thiel Owners Meanwhile, there is a pair of CS2.4s for sale, $1900, seller rates them 9/10. I kinda wish I had bought something like this and sent the crossovers to Rob Gillum for a full cap upgrade. This would probably result in SQ on par with anything new up ... | |
| Thiel Owners Note that the 2.4 SE only replaced two Solen mylar feed caps with Clarity SAs. Today there are much better caps available today from Clarity, Mundorf and other brands. My personal experience (via consulting for other brands) is that the upper ... | |
| Why so few speakers with Passive Radiators? @jon_5912 that sounds right. From Richard Hardesty in APJ Vol. 3: Vented subwoofers offer inferior performance compared to sealed enclosure subwoofers of equivalent quality in the following areas: transient response, phase response, group delay,an... | |
| Why so few speakers with Passive Radiators? I consider the passive radiator a special case of a vented design:1 Sealed enclosures2 Vented enclosures 2a Ported 2b Passive radiatorKeep in mind I'm just a bozo typing opinions on a forum, not an expert! | |
| Why so few speakers with Passive Radiators? I agree that it is a "successful" trade-off and I am plenty happy with the bass performance of my CS2.4SE. But I think you need to directly compare sealed vs. vented (including passive radiator) designs to fully understand the what the trade-offs ... | |
| Why so few speakers with Passive Radiators? Everything is a trade-off in speaker design. If there was one "right" way, all speakers would share that design! Each designer weighs the trade-offs to optimize what they think and feel sounds best.Sealed boxes tend to give the best definition and... | |
| Thiel Owners That "getting out of the way" quality of Thiels is awfully addictive. Over the last 25 years, I’ve heard speakers from Wilson (W/P 7, W/P 8, Sasha, Maxx), TAD (Reference One and CR-1), Revel (M20, Studio, Salon Mk 2), Avalon (Eclipse, Ascent, ... | |
| Budget American made speakers? tough to buy ‘all American’ Charles Hansen posted on audioasylum that Ayre made very effort to source from American manufacturers. It's just not possible to *every* part from the USA. - Chassis: Made in California, including anodizing and silks... | |
| Budget American made speakers? It looks like the Vandersteen bookshelf speakers are ~$1300. You probably can get them used for <$1K. Thanks for buying American! When recently deliberating a speaker upgrade, I considered the Revel F206 and F208. I quick internet search on wor... | |
| Avalon Acoustics Ascent MKii value? Did they ever make the Ascent with Nextel finish? I thought that was reserved for the cheaper models. The Ascent was one of the more expensive speakers available at the time. Hard to imagine someone wanting to save a relatively small amount of mon... | |
| Avalon Acoustics Ascent MKii value? Ascent Mk IIs are one of the classics. It's been years since I've heard these but I'm confident they still rank among the better speakers made. | |
| Thiel Owners Accuracy certainly is in the mix because these speakers sound about as real as a speaker can reasonably get. Because of that I think they walk a fine line and when people get an unfavorable impression of them i think they have not be set up we... | |
| Thiel Owners To check for the leak, you can gently push in on the woofer and Passive diaphragms at the same time. I'm very reluctant to try this. Supposedly, dimpled drivers have no measurable or audible effects but . . .Maybe you can use something with a bi... | |
| Thiel Owners I drove an equivalent distance to pick up my first pair of 3.5’s. I recall reading on audioasylum that Charles Hansen thought the 3.5s were Thiel's best sounding speaker with the 3.7s a close second. But maybe I'm hallucinating as I can't find ... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, I’m just nit-picking.Merriam-Webster: 1 a : a small shop dealing in fashionable clothing or accessories b : a small shop within a large department store 2 : a small company that offers highly specialized services or products IMO, different w... |