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| Ayre introduces the AX-8 integrated amp @hgeifman Yes, I know they announced the QX-8 months ago. It's been long enough ago that I wonder if they've changed any features or scrapped it altogether. I would love a QX-5 but already crunched my budget with the AX-5 last year. I might at le... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof Do you think Jim Thiel was insincere when he told Jeff Fritz: The improved resolution is not the kind of thing that shows up well in measurements; the magnitude of the difference between the CS2.4 and the CS2.4SE is more easily h... | |
| Ayre introduces the AX-8 integrated amp Disappointing to see that so much of the engineering of the integrated is actually the "digital hub" unit. In other words it's the QX-8 with a fairly low powered integrated thrown in to provide an all-in-one lifestyle solution. And *not* the... | |
| Thiel Owners Alternate timeline fantasy . . . What if Kathy Gornik had hired a tweaking engineer ca. 2010. Keep the drivers and cabinets pretty much the same but tweak the crossovers, wiring, and binding posts to the nth degree. Here's @lrsky in ... | |
| Thiel Owners In fact, he is working on becoming the owner/operator, solely, of Thiel Customer Service where our legacy products will continue to receive the care. I figured that was the more realistic scenario, thanks for sharing jafant! Great news, indee... | |
| 5-10k budget... so many choices My very short list at that price range, new, would surely include the Vandersteen Treo CT. But maybe I shouldn't weigh in as my very strong preference is to get the very best two-channel performance my budget will allow. I'd far rather have a a pa... | |
| Thiel Owners good news for you guys Kathy Gornik bought it back for pennies and will resume production of the CS2.4SE and CS3.7?:) | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant did you get a chance to inquire about driver availability? | |
| Upgrade bug - advice on amp or preamp upgrade from Ayre for Revel speakers? new Integrated is more powerful than previous models From Ryan Berry’s post it’s 100 W into 8 ohms, and every Ayre amp to date doubles into 4 ohms. This puts it between the AX-7 (60 W) and AX-5 (125 W). I ran an AX-7 for almost 15 years on my CS1.... | |
| Upgrade bug - advice on amp or preamp upgrade from Ayre for Revel speakers? Aww, crap, my link is wrong. Here is the text from Ryan Berry's post on AA dated Dec. 2, 2017. We're planning on being able to start shipping the EX-8 soon, hopefully by end of year depending on when we get some components, such as the chassis,... | |
| Upgrade bug - advice on amp or preamp upgrade from Ayre for Revel speakers? This is a total aside, but anyone have insight into the future of Ayre post Charles? I still grimace when I think of what happened to Thiel after Jim passed... Unbelievable what happened to Thiel Audio. Jim Thiel never mentored another engine... | |
| Thiel Owners On my 2.7's, i had been using the outrigger with the spikes that came with them. Replaced them with big brass feet from Mapleshade and that was a nice improvement. Also, Avalon makes some cones (aluminum? stainless steel?) that I might try d... | |
| Thiel Owners Good luck, bcarr38In your previous post you wrote: I have a pair of CS 2.3s with upgraded coax speaker which sound great but I am interested in upgrading Was the upgrade the driver or crossover? I am *really* happy with the CS2.4SE. It can't repr... | |
| Thiel Owners I tried some Iso Acoustic Iso-Pucks under one of my Thiel 2.7s tonight. I'm not familiar with this product but, as a rule, isolation footers should be used only for electronics and, maybe, cables but never speakers. I'm not surprised you didn't ... | |
| Thiel Owners the outriggers are very sweet and very heavy. I have heard the 2.4, 2.4SE and 2.7 models with and without outriggers. To my ears, there is a slightly improved sound and presentation using the outriggers. I venture to report that the difference... |