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| Thiel Owners @tomthiel I’m a little late, but welcome and thanks for your valuable and insightful comments.I like Thiel's augment mode where the crossover to the woofer is first order and only the subwoofer is higher order. … I use a stereo pair of Thiel Smar... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof oopsFinally, a team of audio pros working with JLA f112's and Thiel CS3.7s chose 100 Hz in this example, http://www.soundoctor.com/studio/. Actually, these guys chose 80 Hz, not 100. It seems that 80 Hz is the default choice for crossover fr... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof Congratulations on your new gear. I think you'll like the improvements. You called yourself a sub newb in an earlier post, but IMO, your previous comments suggest you understand the principles just fine. So dive in and have fun.My impression... | |
| Thiel Owners I forgot to mention what was probably the key feature in favor of the SI-1 for me. It has fully balanced circuitry, not just balanced inputs and outputs. The only other active crossover I found with this feature is a particular variant in the Marc... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof wrote: If using a first order crossover with the sub were about maintaining time/phase coherence, I’m not going to have that anyway. The subs will have some delay, and will be placed behind the speakers, hence time delay. I could ideally get ... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks, @profJim Thiel's concept for the SmartSub line and the crossovers that go with it was to save the end user from having to get into the weeds learning how to integrate successfully. He also wanted to advance the state-of-the-art for sub int... | |
| Thiel Owners Here come some long-delayed replies to several points raised by Prof on 12/9 in his response to my original post to this thread. First, a correction:I wrote on 12/9: The [Thiel] SI-1 uses first-order crossovers; the [JL Audio] CR-1 uses 4th-order... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for your welcome, jafant, and for your reply, Prof.I have some deadlines looming and a family member going through some serious medical issues, so I’ll have to limit my time here. I’ll try to respond to your queries a bit at a time.My syst... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm the one who won the eBay auction for the SI-1 integrator. Can't wait for it to arrive!Prof.: Thiel crossovers can be used with non-Thiel subs. Setup may be somewhat less automatic than with Smartsubs, but no more and often less complicated tha... | |
| Replacing a MAC Mini with new one... You might consider a newer mac mini with the fusion drive option as a less expensive alternative to a large SSD or SSD + conventional hard drive. The OS sees the fusion drive as a single drive but it combines a large-capacity conventional drive wi... | |
| Classe' Preamp comparisons Thanks, Gbart. Sounds like the acclaim is well earned. | |
| Classe' Preamp comparisons I've read that the factory option phono stage in the CP-50/60 is highly regarded, but compared to what? The phono option seems to add $400-$500 to the cost of these units used (about the same as new!) and they move quickly. So if I went w/o the ph... |