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| More Bad News AT Thiel Yep,The brand "Thiel" grew in prominence due to a specific, and generally rare, approach to loudspeaker design. The whole cache of that name was from the fans who appreciated that particular design. The idea of taking over the Thiel name to abando... | |
| Thiel Owners ish_mail,Great info, and congratulations. If I’d had more than 20 minutes to research the Thiel unit I may have been your competitor :-)I’m new to subwoofers and it’s a hell of a learning curve. It’s absurd just how complicated simply adding the l... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound,I believe I measured for a Thiel sub on it’s side and decided against it - I think it was still a bit too big and I never could find a place in my room I’d want to put it, without crowding the room. The JL subs were very small, yet high qu... | |
| Thiel Owners Oh man, I took a look for that Smart Sub on ebay and came across an auction that was literally ending in 20 minutes for a Thiel SmartSub SI 1 Integrator!Those were said to be masterful for blending Thiels and Thiel subs, and rarely come up on the ... | |
| Thiel Owners dhoff01,Thiel spare parts costs, sent to me quite a while ago from Rob: CS3.7 coax - $525CS3.7 woofer- $400CS3.7 Passive- $200The 2.7 speaker parts are, as I remember, between $50 to $100 less per part.Sub integration:I haven't had a chance to do... | |
| The most sophisticated sound you ever heard I'll answer simply appealing to whatever pops into my mind, sonically, when I think of the term "sophisticated."MBL 101E speakers, in a couple different set ups.They just did everything: limitless sounding resolution, imaging, dynamics, and the wi... | |
| Thiel Owners FYI:The"more bad news at Thiel" thread panicked me a bit.I am still deciding on which Thiels - 2.7 or 3.7 - to keep and I'll want spare drivers for whichever one (e.g. spare coax and spare woofers/passive). I spoke to Rob G. and as I understo... | |
| More Bad News AT Thiel For Thiel lovers, a visit to the current "Thiel" website is just sad. It's like returning to one of the great High End restaurants only to find they are now only serving "convenient" frozen dinners.What an awful move. | |
| More Bad News AT Thiel "Next phase" will be selling bathroom products with the Thiel logo. | |
| KEF, ProAc, Monitor Audio and others Well, I'm glad Yoda has apparently joined the thread.Now I just have to parse the language - or pay the money - in order to move to the next dimension. | |
| Are you Sirius? I loathe...LOATHE!...Sirius!!!And it's not actually because of the music. It's for this reason:As many have experienced, my new car (a Volkswagen Golf, several years ago when it was new), came loaded with a month trial period of Sirius.I did not ... | |
| Michael Fremer's system As for "not getting great sound" in a room like that...Some of the best sound I've ever heard were large speakers in small rooms. (That includes mine, but I've heard higher end speakers in other small rooms). Often a small room means the speake... | |
| What is it that you don't like about your Listening Room ? I designed the AV room of my dreams, completed in 2010. My front room, 13ft x 15ft, had always been my two channel listening room and sounded excellent. But I got into home theater/projection big time and totally reno'd the room to have a 4 way ... | |
| Thiel Owners oblgny,I hope some day you get a chance to try the 3.7s in your system. Apparently Jim was deliberately going for a higher efficiency than previous Thiels (Stereophile measure it just under 91.dB). The impedance was low, but as I've said many ti... | |
| Gradient Revolution Opinions All I know is that when I had my Quad 63/Gradient Subwoofer combo (built for the Quads), it was the most seamless dynamic speaker/panel match I've ever heard, before or since.The bass was almost as boxless as the Quad sound. Though, it also lacke... |