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| Thiel Owners tom,I like my 02s so much I’ve been considering having them re-finished (their old finish is a bit blah, faded, and doesn’t match our room at all).I don’t know if it would be possible to actually have a veneer of another wood placed over them, or ... | |
| What you can say about lowbass and midbass perfomance for high end loudspeakers ? erik,IOW, I agree with the approach, but the explanation is an urban legend which hides a series of more complicated issues. Wait! Are you saying the explanations audiophiles often believe on intuition are often inaccurate?Say it ain't so ;-) | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Besides, it’s not like burning in cables is a product or anything give me a break! LOL. The very link you are referring to as "puffing" is promoting just such a product:"However, the best solution is to treat your cables using a designated cable b... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? taras22,So what is your answer to the dilemma posed by the claims in high end audio?Do we just accept that any hypothesis can be floated, and then decided by appeal to subjective impressions?If so, that puts high end audio on par with Mesmerism, a... | |
| Thiel Owners tom,I sure enjoy reading your posts about the Thiel backstory.And...I would hope for a memory like yours at 70. (Actually, I'd hope for a memory like that at my age, 54, and I don't have it!) | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,If you come across model O1s or O2s, the back panel will say Thiel - manufactured by Conceptions Electronics. I just checked my pair of 02s and it looks like Thiel outsourced to more than one manufacturer. Mine say on the back, manufactu... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,If you come across model O1s or O2s, the back panel will say Thiel - manufactured by Conceptions Electronics. I just checked my Thiel 02s. Looks like Thiel outsourced to more than one company as mine (in Canada) say Manufactured by:Heinl... | |
| How about a list of speakers that are time and phase coherent? Thiels and what else? No longer in business but:Dunlavy Audio LabsMeadowlark Audio (Actually they are now back in business but I'm not sure they are still doing time/phase coherent speakers).Quad ESL 63s I believe are time/phase coherent, I seem to remember. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? @andy2Ha, as a bit of a philosophy nerd, yes Hume is one of my favorites!*nerd hat on*Yes, best to assume most people are telling the truth - which is justified inductively (most of the time people tell the truth), by the principle of parsimony (p... | |
| PMC versus Wilson Audio I've heard the PMC MB2 SE's sound tremendously impressive at shows.A real combination of bowl-you-over dynamics, a big sound, with timbral realism. Especially from outside the room, it often sounded like a live jazz band, and sometimes even som... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? @andy2Again in order for you to be right, everyone else must be wrong. And I just explicitly said I’m not proposing that I have an answer "that I am right about" in regards to cable burn in. I just wrote that I DON’T claim to have that answer, so ... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? As to your second accusation, it sounds more like projection on your part, as it presupposes only you can be right. Now that's a straw man Yes you have indeed have created another strawman.Habits are hard to break I guess. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? In other words, nonoise, you like to drop in occasionally with a strawman. ;-)Yes, they are much more friendly to your own view, than actually dealing with the details of someone else's actual position. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? @andy2,Again, I believe you are missing a third alternative:I (or "we") don't know who is right.Say we want to know if it's raining outside, and we can not tell from the windowless room in which we sit. One method is to get up, open the front doo... | |
| Upgraditis? A lot of us completely understand your experience rvpiano. That’s why we are here. If everyone was simply satisfied with what they have and at the end of their journey, much of the conversation here would evaporate.It reminds me of a passage in a ... |