cascadesphil
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| Thiel Owners "In my opinion, many of the long-standing and ubiquitous criticisms of Thiel speakers as 'bright, in your face, aggressive', etc. are due to amplifier distress." I couldn't agree more. I've owned 2.3s, 7.2s and now 3.7s. In addition, when a ... | |
| Thiel Owners The proper place to cross over an added subwoofer (and I've owned a bunch of Rels (over 20 years) is first to measure where the mains drop off in your room. Bass frequencies sum. So if your mains and sub are playing the same frequencies you'll o... | |
| Thiel Owners The speakers are not that hard for many to hold in a tilted postion while someone looks underneath (you only need to tilt them several inches to get a smart phone under there to take a picture). I used to own 7.2s which were the same size as the ... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm sure there are other sites but you can go here and get snapshots of websites at particular times - https://web.archive.org/web/*/thiel.com | |
| Thiel Owners Manuals, including later updates for the SS2 can be found at Hifiengine - https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/thiel-audio/ss2.shtml | |
| Thiel Owners @big_greg Do you have the original tweeters in the 2.3s, or the later revisions (vented). When my friend worked at the store we updated a few pairs (and those were where someone had blown a tweeter). On my first visit to the store, when I mov... | |
| Thiel Owners I do not recall (from a review) which IcePower module the Peachtree uses. They do have spec sheets. I am not sure they will have the detail you are seeking. They are at the IcePower site: https://icepoweraudio.com/products/amplifier-power-modu... | |
| Thiel Owners " I owned a Nova 300 for a while and thought it was a decent and affordable unit. That was before I owned any Thiels, so I can't comment on how it paired with them, but depending on who you listen to, it might not be a great match sonically. In... | |
| Thiel Owners Why all the concern with continuos power into 2 ohms? I believe the modules I read somewhere are made by IcePower (and their spec sheets talks about 2.5 ohms as does Peachtree's). The person asking the question, the most important thing in sugge... | |
| Thiel Owners Below are Stereophile's measurements. Many manufacturers have the marketing types do their websites. https://www.stereophile.com/content/peachtree-audio-nova300-integrated-amplifier-measurements | |
| Thiel Owners As indicated above "The amplifier in the nova300 is capable of driving an extremely wide range of speakers with impedances as low as 2.5Ω and as high as 16Ω" | |
| Thiel Owners To my knowledge, I don't know of an independent lab testing the full specs. There's a review (without measurements) by a member of the SF Audiophile Society and he notes about its 2 ohm rating "“2 ohms stable” (not sure exactly what that means?)"... | |
| Thiel Owners "If the amp is not specifically spec'd into 2 Ohms, it 's not very likely that it's capable at that load." That's not true 100% of the time (and I realize you indicated 'not very likely'). For example, the IcePower AS series (1200AS) indicates m... | |
| Thiel Owners If you can stretch the budget a drop, there's a lightly used Peachtree Audio nova300 integrated on Audiogon that is listed as 2 months old in mint condition for $1,250. If you can get a few bucks off, it is rated at 300W into 8 ohms and 450W into... | |
| Thiel Owners btw - accessories4less.com sells authorized refurbs and it is $300 cheaper than Amazon. It apparently has an impedance switch for speakers between 4 and 6 ohms which hints at the fact that it is not considered ideal for lower impedance speakers.S... |