jon_5912
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| Thiel Owners @tomthiel, my understanding is that the reduction in shrinkage is mainly due to the fiber. Is that correct? I've been wanting to build a madisound kit and make the baffle out of concrete. I have the concrete, a bag of glass fiber and some plast... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof, that is fun reading. I definitely agree that the 3.7s are not exceptionally hard to drive. They appreciate some power but I don't believe you need a megabuck amp to get a lot out of them. Maybe a huge solid state amp would make a little ... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof, pre-concentric driver Thiels have that same phase cancellation effect. If you're fairly close to them and move your head around vertically you'll notice huge shifts in sound. I still love my 2 2s, though. It's hard for me to imagine anyb... | |
| Thiel Owners As I've said in the past, I use a pair of Cambridge 840s with my 3.7s and I think they're completely adequate, at least at the moderate volumes I listen at. You'd pay in the 3-4k range for a pair. I know a guy who hangs around on audioasylum use... | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2, I've been wondering that myself. For those of us who mostly use digital playback I think the ultimate setup will use digital/software crossovers that can be switched to whatever you want. Heck, my 12 year old Velodyne sub has this option... | |
| Thiel Owners It is kind of a tragedy that the 2.7/3.7 coax isn't being produced any more. I've thought about it and it seems the theoretical ideal would be if Vandersteen would buy the Thiel name and produce a few models. Since it's a first order company as ... | |
| Best speakers for $300/pr One thing to keep in mind, at that price there are frequently speakers that are produced in pretty high quantities. It's not too hard to find big discounts. Since people buying in this price range aren't particularly discerning usually, you may ... | |
| Help for a Greenhorn: Devialet Phantom Reactor vs. KEF LS50 powered vs. Audio Pro Drumfire When you look at a picture of the Devialet Phantom Reactor it is obvious that it is a form before function product. That doesn't mean it's bad. It's being marketed to a completely different crowd than the kef LS50 is, though. It's almost an app... | |
| Thiel Owners To me the Thiel sound is the sound that makes me forget about the sound. There's nothing about it that bothers me. I don't understand why. Maybe it's because of the first order phase correct crossover. There definitely aren't any frequency res... | |
| Thiel Owners @tom, the crossover is much steeper but the ATC mid is crossed over at 380 while the CS2.4 is at 800. Since it was created as a pro driver it was made for loud volume, reliability, temperature stability. | |
| Thiel Owners would I be right in saying that phase coherence means that the drivers are in phase with each other but not necessarily with the source? So if two drivers are 50 degrees out of phase with the source signal at a particular frequency we say they're... | |
| Thiel Owners The ATC actives use some kind of active phase compensation to align the drivers at the crossover frequencies. I don't think they go to the trouble Thiel did to keep time alignment throughout. What big active ATCs have that little else can match ... | |
| Thiel Owners My ATC 110s have a 3" midrange that will play incredibly loudly. it's the same midrange that is in the SCM 300 ASL that will do 121 db continuously. I doubt any Wilson product can touch that. The crossover to the woofer is 380hz. The midrange ... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm with prof on cables. In my experience they make such a small difference compared to other things that I've always considered them of negligible interest. I don't really consider myself an audiophile and I'm at a very unaudiophile stage of li... | |
| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? It's an unanswerable question but I've had my Thiel 3.7s for almost 7 years and I don't have any criticisms. There's nothing about them that is bothering me. It's possible that I could at some point become unhappy with them but I can't guess why. |