jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? @dave_b - speakers aren't the same. Musical instruments are designed to resonate. That's how they get their distinctive sounds. Speakers, on the other hand, are designed not to resonate. The less they resonate, the less of their own sound they... | |
| Thiel Owners The 3.7s are kind of difficult to get in the boxes, I've done it twice I think. They're only around 100 lbs, though. I replaced a pair of B&W N802s with the 3.7s and I almost killed myself getting the B&Ws up the basement stairs. My bac... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? The Thiel CS 7 had a concrete baffle. There have been others. Thiel stopped using concrete because it was too hard to ship without breaking. I think the performance was great. I think it'd be an interesting challenge to build a really high per... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? If I had time I'd love to play around with this. I'd try routing patterns in mdf and filling them with high strength concrete. A bag of 6,500 psi concrete costs $8 and it's hard for me to believe it couldn't be used in combination with other mat... | |
| Thiel Owners pops, I love both the ATCs and the Thiels. Both are great products intended to be as accurate as possible but with somewhat different ways of going about it. ATCs are usually active and the company is mainly known for pro audio. ATC has been bu... | |
| Thiel Owners When my 3.7 mid blew it made a very noticeable scraping sound. | |
| Thiel Owners I blew the midrange on my 3.7s the first few months I had them. I was listening to Beethoven The Revolutionary loud. I took the driver out myself and it didn't look scorched or anything to me. That was back in 2012 and they've been fine since t... | |
| 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. | |
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