jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| Thiel Owners I'm a fan of having a couple of sets of speakers or a couple of systems. I think there is some difficulty in getting a single system to do everything well. Thiels excel at lower to moderate volume, acoustic music. I don't use them to really cra... | |
| Thiel Owners It seems to me that if there were really a significant problem with the power coming from the wall that sources and preamps past a pretty moderate price point would all be battery powered. It wouldn't be particularly expensive to implement. You ... | |
| New rigg. B&W N804 It's got enough power. I couldn't guess whether it'd sound better but a CA400 is old and I'd be worried about reliability. I didn't find the 804s particularly power hungry when I had them. I found placement to be somewhat tricky. Having both w... | |
| Thiel Owners I think there can be a little too much emphasis on doubling into 4 ohms. This is related to gain and I think the total power of the amplifier is a better way to think about it. There are well respected amplifiers that don't double. Ayre, for ex... | |
| New rigg. B&W N804 I ran those with a Classe CA200 long ago and it was a pretty good match. The 804s are a little bit bright and the Classe is a little bit rolled off in the highs. A 400 is a lot more power than you need but it'd certainly work. If I were you, fo... | |
| Best speaker/system piano concerts +1 on ATC, especially if you like to listen at fairly realistic volumes. | |
| Thiel Owners @batmanfan the list of $2,180 is for two so that's $1,090 each list price. A $100 increase over the original $990 initial price is to be expected. Thiel always raised the prices gradually. | |
| Thiel Owners http://audioconsultants.com/UsedEquipment.aspx | |
| Thiel Owners I don't know if this is relevant to anyone here but Audio Consultants in Chicago was a Thiel dealer for decades. They've usually got a few pairs of Thiels on their used list. Right now 3.5, 2.2 and 2 for sale. | |
| Thiel Owners Prof, how much for the drivers? I've been thinking about that myself as I'd like to keep my 3.7s pretty much forever and I imagine Coherent Source Services won't be around more than 10 years, if that long. My 2 2s are probably 25 years old and g... | |
| Thiel Owners My experience with 3.7s and amps has been that when I got them I had a single Cambridge 840w. This is rated at 200 watts into 8 ohms, 300 watts into 4 ohms. It's not a monster amp but not tiny either. It worked ok but I did blow a midrange, not... | |
| Thiel Owners It seems a lot of people have old Classe amps sitting around. I've got a pair of CA200s from 1996 that haven't been used in 5+ years. They developed intermittent crackling sounds that I couldn't get fixed. I replaced them with a pair of Cambrid... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding color, my 3.7s are Morado and I also have an MCS1 in what they call dark cherry. If there is any difference between these two finishes it's subtle. When I bought the MCS1 I was hoping it would be a matching center with the 3.7s as fron... | |
| Is Velodyne gone? I've got a 2006ish Velodyne DD18 that was a floor model at a closing tweeter. I got it cheap and it's still going strong. I've heard the bigger ones last longer because the amps are stressed a lot less. I'll be disappointed if I can't get parts... | |
| Speakers Bought Brand New For The Cost Of A Good Night Out, That "Kick Ass". Guitar Center often has some nice deals on traded-in studio monitors if you go to the local store (they don't seem to always show up on the online search).I completely agree with this approach. I would add pawn shops as potential sources of reall... |