jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| MY THIEL 1.5 FLOOR SPEAKERS I doubt it. I don't know what a high end sound bar is but I'd be surprised if it could compete with, let alone beat, what you've already got. | |
| Thiel Owners I played around with test tones on my 3.7s and heard some mild vibration in the crossover. Something is resonating down there but I've never heard it with anything other than the test tone cd so I don't worry about it. Test tones can do funny th... | |
| Thiel Owners My thought has always been that the core system should be as accurate as possible but allow for an alternative when you want to listen to something that is hard to tolerate without some softening. In the past I've run two paths, one using the bal... | |
| Thiel Owners @yyzsantabarbara - I bought my 3.7s in 2012 and then had kids in 2013 and 2014. I've moved 3 times since then and they've been in a bunch of less than perfect setups. While they'll be best in a big, well setup room, I think you can appreciate a ... | |
| Thiel Owners I've sucked out tweeters with toilet paper rolls before. I'd try that before resorting to a vacuum. My kids are 5 and 6 so for the last few years I've been trying to avoid them damaging my 3.7s. I actually built light frames around them and put... | |
| Thiel Owners Those 7.2s in NC have been for sale for quite a while. I think the best single place to see what is available is hifishark.com. It pulls from a bunch of different sites. | |
| Thiel Owners The inability of certain personalities to cope with ambiguity makes the people watching aspect of audio a lot of fun. You can see with the audioholics guys that they are very emotionally invested in there being nothing audible that can't be measu... | |
| Are these damned brands or not good speakers? I definitely think there are companies pricing their products so that very few will ever hear them and almost nobody will ever really get to know them. There are reasons why prices need to be so high but they aren't performance related. If every... | |
| Thoughts wanted for new speaker design My opinion is that there should be more speakers that maximize output above the subwoofer range. I think a sealed box that starts to roll off gradually around 80 hz is the ideal for a lot of situations. Even for bigger 3-ways I think it makes se... | |
| Thiel Owners Anybody looking for used Thiels should check reverb.com. I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned here but they've got pairs of 3.5s and 3.6s right now. They've also got lots of Bryston gear and other speakers and electronics. | |
| Thiel Owners I wonder how many of us don't have much stuff of value outside of our stereos. I'm definitely in that boat. If I sold off all my non-stereo stuff other than the house it'd probably be worth less than 5k. I'm just not interested in any other con... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm definitely of the opinion that old Thiels are great and I'm not sure how much better the new ones are when it comes to just enjoying music. I love the overall character of Thiels and as has been said, that hasn't changed too much over time. | |
| Metal cabinet speakers The entire box doesn't need to be made out of concrete. You could make the baffle from aluminum or some other material that is practical. My point is that making the entire box of a ludicrously expensive speaker out of a single material is ridic... | |
| Metal cabinet speakers How about concrete? You can get the stuff they make concrete countertops out of at a store near me for around $15/bag. Past a point it seems it would make more sense to have portable forms and pour the box onsite. Or have the box made out of in... | |
| Metal cabinet speakers I'd guess it doesn't provide enough performance improvement to justify the cost. There are probably other areas where the money spent on metal cabinets can provide more performance. The companies that moved away from it are capable of doing a lo... |