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| Thiel Owners @tomthielThanks Tom.Just to be clear, when you write: <i>"38" ear height is design target."</i>Does that design target assume the speaker is on spikes or not? | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel,Regarding raising/spiking Thiel speakers.I’ve generally had the best success in my room with my 3.7s/2.7s (and other speakers) sitting right on the floor, no spikes. (It’s a wood foor covered in a shag carpet). However, I’ll probably try... | |
| Is Spiking Necesarry? My problem with spikes and footers is that every time I've ever raised my speakers using them - and that includes several different speakers - I've found a change for the worse. The upper/lower bass tends to start bloating a bit more. Whereas s... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! bump for anyone to answer my last paragraph. | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here unsound,I was big on Dunlavy when they were popular, heard many models, including auditioning some as possible purchases. The Aletha model (unfortunately not many made as Dunlavy folded not long after introduction) was really something. It prod... | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here beetlemania,On the subject of soundstaging:I've always owned speakers that were particularly good at disappearing and soundstaging. Which is a bit ironic because my first priority by far is tone in a sound system - the ability to portray beautifu... | |
| Scoring on Used Thiels here beetlemania,Nice post!I can tell you that if you were listening to the 3.7s you wouldn't have any reservations about the soundstaging, depth. The 2.7s I have do fore-shorten depth a bit, but the 3.7s sound just spreads massively, seems to go on f... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Ugh, another bump in the road:When I swapped the position of the additional MDF boards to above the Townsend springs (and under the butcher block base) I forgot that this means the entire weight of the turntable and wood base is now sitting only o... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel,Whatever happened to the MCS1.2 center channel announced in 2012?https://www.soundandvision.com/content/long-awaited-thiel-centerThat got a lot of Thiel owners very excited, but of course it never came out to market. What exactly happ... | |
| Thiel Owners What a happy article that was!So much of what made Thiel great came from the character of people running that company, and the tradition is being carried on by Rob. | |
| Racks made of wood @kennythekey I’ve come to similar conclusions about the efficacy of springs for isolation.As I’ve detailed in my thread about re-vamping my Lovan rack to accommodate my new high mass turntable, I’ve tried a great many types of isolation materials ... | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! peter_s,I used to hear stacked quads (with an additional super tweeter as I remember...maybe it was a ribbon) at a local tube amp designer's place, back in the late 90's. It was always an impressive experience and such a wall of sound! | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! In the end, I think Quad’s Peter Walker himself said it best when asked if he felt satisfied with his product, "Oh no, we think our loudspeaker very poor, but we think that the others are even poorer!"Finally!You just helped me solve a brain-worm ... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! bdp24,Tell me about it!It's ironic you mention room acoustics: One reason this has all taken me so long is that I'm juggling two newbie moments: setting up a new expensive turntable AND attempting for the first time to integrate two new subwoofer... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! When we hooked everything up we only got one channel playing!Panic!Cable-swapping time.Thank goodness I had my experienced turntable buddy there because he ended up checking the wires of the RCAs coming from the Transrotor and, sure enough, one of... |