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| Thiel Owners @tmsrdg re Thiel SI-1 (from 12/15)I purchased an SI-1 about two years ago to integrate a pair of JL Audio f112s with my 3.7s. It's in perfect working condition, and I have yet to experience any problems with it. Sounds like I'm lucky on that score... | |
| Thiel Owners brayeagle: Congratulations on your 97th. I loved the origin tale for your handle. You brought your own good stuff to this forum. Enjoy your system. Salute. | |
| Why the woofer moves badly when playing certain LPs @atmasphere Thanks for your comment. I enjoy reading your posts on various forums and consider you an expert on things audio. So it's with respect that I disagree with your comment: This statement is incorrect. If the mechanical resonance is corre... | |
| Why the woofer moves badly when playing certain LPs @mijostyn I generally agree with your criticisms of periphery clamps, especially the inconvenience factor. That being said, it's possible to select a p clamp that is heavy enough to flatten many warps yet light enough to prevent adverse effects on... | |
| Why the woofer moves badly when playing certain LPs I see a periodic pattern in the woofer oscillations: every so often there’s a slight pause or dip in the amplitude of the oscillations and then the pattern repeats. The video doesn’t allow a precise clocking, but the pattern repeats roughly every ... | |
| Thiel Owners Speaking of boundary compensation (that is correction for SBIR --- Speaker Boundary Interference Response), Thiel smart subs have SBIR correction to compensate for reflections off the front and side walls, but not the rear wall (behind the listene... | |
| Thiel Owners vair68robert,Starting with a pair of 2.2s in 1996, I too have mostly bought used since then, and it's still been a rather expensive (but rewarding) hobby. I'm surprised and pleased to learn that CA-2300s are fetching $5k+ used. That's a bit more t... | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert Thanks for your post back on 9/11 with the link to the article comparing the Classé CA-2300 and the C-J MF-2550 SE amps running 3.7s. I've been running 3.7s with a Classé CT-2300 (same as CA-2300 except for the case). Starting with t... | |
| Thiel Owners Not sure if serial numbers for all Thiel models are of interest here, but I have the following pairs: CS 2 2s: 7599,7600 and 3.7s 131,132. I am the original owner of the 2 2s and (probably) the third owner of the 3.7s. | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks, Tom. I’ve never had an opportunity to listen to DR-series Classé amps. I think my first Classé amps were the first post-DR generation. They tilted to a warm sound. Maybe that agrees with your comments.My current-generation CT-2300 has a mu... | |
| Thiel Owners Hope everyone had a fine Thanksgiving (for all those here who celebrated that day yesterday or at all). ... Here's another back story question: Early on, Thiel and Classé Audio seemed to have a close, if informal, relation in marketing and in-hous... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel Thanks for the counter narrative on the TAD reference speakers. Very interesting. The Hales line was perhaps(?) another example of a faux coherent speaker line. Their cabinets featured concrete baffles that were sloped similarly to Thiel... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof I too am sorry for your setback and wish you a thorough recovery.I would add Technical Audio Devices (TAD) Reference Series as another product line whose design shares many of the same goals with Thiel but with a cost-no-object market strate... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel: Thanks for your replies to my questions back on 8-24. Sorry for this delayed follow-up, life is keeping my busy these days. I’m by no means an expert on analog delay, having only read an article you can find by searching for ‘boss talk:... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, I have serial No. -4 of the SW1, now in mothballs. I'll probably put it up for sale at some point. This is the prototype that Jim used to demo the SW1 at audio shows until the SS2 model was released. I bought it from a former employee (or con... |