jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| Thiel Owners The 3.7 grill is a flat piece of perforated steel, covered in fabric, and attached to the front of the speaker with magnets. I've never thought about this before but the grills on my ATCs are also perforated steel with fabric covers. I've listen... | |
| Active Speaker Choice Nothing can take the room out of the equation. DSP can help some situations but if you've got a resonance at 60hz DSP can't eliminate it. I've got some big active ATCs that I got used for relatively cheap. They aren't DSP but they are unusually... | |
| Thiel Owners As a cable skeptic, I'm wondering how the length of speaker cables plays into this. If we assume that the perfect cable is transparent, shouldn't the ideal situation involve extremely short runs? Since I run mono amps I have a very short run of ... | |
| Do Thiel Audio CS3.7 Rock? When it comes to punch I find my 3.7s are transparent. If a recording lacks punch then it sounds that way. If it has been mastered in a way that makes it sound unnaturally punchy I notice that as well. These speakers will not give punch to reco... | |
| Anyone Successfully Go from Floor Standers to Bookshelf Monitors w/ Subs? There's no way to duplicate a big woofer playing mid and upper bass. I've gone back and forth and the energy isn't there without a big woofer, 8" minimum. The only way I've heard small woofer speakers rival big ones is nearfield. This is a good... | |
| WILSON AUDIO.....BIG NAME, BIG PRICE........ARE THEY THAT GOOD? @celtic66 Do you really think the people marketing range rover, rolex, bose, etc. had some exceptional marketing strategy that sustained these brands for this long? Can't be true. How could it be? They're more evidence of the inability to diffe... | |
| Best stands so baby doesn't knock speaker over I built a simple light wood frame and wrapped it with some cloth mesh from a fabric store. Put it over the entire speaker. It worked fine, didn't look nice but with tiny kids nothing looks nice anyway and you'll be too tired to care. | |
| First HIFI system If it were me I'd stretch for a pair of Vandersteen 1Ci's and just get a used receiver at a pawn shop or ebay or something. Recent AV receivers tend to sound pretty darn good, and since the audio/video processing tends to go obsolete quickly th... | |
| Thiel Owners @sdecker, absolutely, the relaxing nature of Thiels is something that I can't claim to objectively explain but I've experienced it very consistently. It's the thing that bothers you about other speakers not being there. It's funny because I'm ge... | |
| Thiel Owners One of my amps has been shutting off randomly. I've got a pair of Cambridge 840s I run bridged mono powering my 3.7s. They're both 10+ years old and are fairly budget oriented made in China products. I'm on the fence about trying to find someon... | |
| Thiel Owners If I were going to try to reinforce an mdf box the first thing I'd look at is porcelain floor tiles. They're incredibly stiff and tough. They don't resonate much but what little they do is at a high frequency. I'd think combining them with mdf ... | |
| Bass is clearer and more impactful when I stand vs. when I sit This is normal. Over time I’ve realized that a great way to mitigate this is to have speakers that begin to drop off slowly at a relatively high frequency. You don’t want speakers that are flat to 30hz. You want speakers that begin to drop off at ... | |
| Thiel Owners @solobone22 that speaker is still taken apart in the corner of the garage. Maybe I'll get to it and maybe I won't. I've already done 2 repairs and bought a replacement part. Knowing that I need at least two more parts to get them working has m... | |
| Thiel Owners Sounds like a fried tweeter to me. I think what causes it is when the leads break, the strands tend to be touching at low volume but at high excursions they lose contact and then regain it, causing a crackling sound. I recently had this problem wi... | |
| We spend too much time talking about tweeters I don't think the percentage of the sound is the key. It's the percentage of potential problems with the sound. If the tweeter only produces 5% of the sound but 50% of the potentially troublesome problems then it deserves more attention. I hard... |