jon_5912
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| Thiel Owners This situation is what makes people watching in audio so amusing. There is real ambiguity in that there are differences that can be heard but not easily measured. There are also charlatans taking advantage of this by making BS claims and trying ... | |
| Thiel Owners @Tomthiel, I'm curious about the nature of your commune. I spent much of my childhood in a very religious commune and my parents still live there. From what I've read I think communes were fairly common for a while but I don't have any perspecti... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm listening to Bill Evans Piano Player after having listened to CD10 of the Bach Recordings box set I got last year. There's certainly an ember alive here. I think of high end audio as a sort of musical tourism. We can hear an incredible vari... | |
| Taming bright Thiels I know this thread is ancient but I'm having a hard time letting the claim that the 2.2s are bright go. They aren't remotely bright. I'm having a hard time believing that anyone, ever, thought they had an overly bright character. Compared to wh... | |
| Will the Thiel CS2.4 fit in my car? @andy2 , I'm curious how you'd describe the small midrange sound. I'd have thought that it would have less directional sound and therefore be less room dependent. I decided a while back that I like small midranges. I'm not 100% sure why. Maybe ... | |
| Will the Thiel CS2.4 fit in my car? I took some Thiel 2 2s home in a Honda Accord. I believe I put one in the front passenger seat and laid one down in the back seat. Take some blankets, I'm pretty sure you'll be fine. | |
| Thiel Owners If I remember correctly voltage (v) = current(I) times resistance (r). Watts equal volts(v) times amps(I). That means that if an amp ever actually dumped 90 amps into a 4 ohm load it would be delivering 32,400 watts. That's 43 horsepower. It m... | |
| Thiel Owners According to audioadvisor specs the JC5 has a max of 90 amps/channel. I tend to look at the size of the transformer and it has 1.7kva which is pretty darn huge. https://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PAHAJC5 | |
| Thiel Owners I know John Ellison over on audio asylum uses the parasound A21 with his 3.7s. It's a really powerful amp for $2,500.https://db.audioasylum.com/mhtml/m.html?forum=speakers&n=361836&highlight=thiel+3+7&r=&a... | |
| Velodyne Minivee Repair or replace I have a Velodyne DD18 that I got as a demo from a closing Tweeter in 2006. I've never had a problem with it. When I hear of people having trouble with Velodynes it seems like it's almost always one of the smaller ones. It takes a massive amoun... | |
| Velodyne Minivee Repair or replace Over the years I've gotten the distinct impression that one of the main downsides of very small subs is reliability. There's a lot of pressure in a tiny box and it requires a lot of power to push that small woofer hard enough to reproduce low fre... | |
| Thiel Owners All this talk of amplifier power got me curious so I checked the measurements of some of the stereophile reviews. The 3.7s have a minimum of 2.4 ohms which is pretty low but they are also pretty sensitive so overall the are a difficult load but n... | |
| Thoughts about the entry level room in RMAF - 2018 Dealers don't want to say it's the best $5,000 system with a fat profit margin but that's obviously a factor. I can't personally imagine spending as much on cables and vibration control as I do on the integrated. Not to mention another $200 for ... | |
| Small dedicated listening rooms I definitely agree about nearfield. If it were me I'd consider ATC SCM25, Focal SM9 and other pro monitors intended for mid/nearfield configurations. | |
| Neutral or Detailed. You can't have both I've thought about this and I mostly agree. Most musical instruments are fairly loud and most recordings are made with microphones fairly close. It makes sense that a speaker that is neutral would have the full detail of the instrument when play... |