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| Thiel Owners tomthiel, At some time there will be a stand-alone short run of perhaps 50 pair of this re-imagined monitor. No promises or projections as to when. I'll be waiting, with interest! | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? Whether a speaker is "good" for X, Y or Z genre is always going to be a subjective call. It’s "good for X music" insofar as you enjoy that music on the speaker. For my kids, apple earbuds are "good" for everything they listen to. There are people... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? On the "what is special about Harbeth?" question, here's part of my answer. Having auditioned an insane amount of speakers - the Harbeth have just stuck out in terms of being able to produce the "gestalt" of the human voice, as well as acoustic i... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? A recent look at a Harbeth XO by GR Research found about 30 components in the XO! Unfortunately, although this can produce a nice flat frequency response, which will satisfy potential buyers but more importantly be favourably mentioned by the re... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? Harbeth to me Are in the same category like Teckton they look plain ugly This had me laugh out loud. A classic, reserved British monitor look is not your cup of tea? Cool. But on the same footing as the Tectonic monstrosities? LOL. | |
| Thiel Owners Boy that's kind of creepy about the current ThielAudio site. How ignominious. Some people suck. | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel So do you mean the actual content of that ThielAudio site is "fake," as it were? And it's just fishing for contact info? I posted a link to the Thiel blog. I didn't mean it was active, but simply that it is still there and not t... | |
| Thiel Owners I wonder who maintains the Thiel Blog. I was just going over the many warm remembrances of Jim Thiel on this page (which I've posted before): http://thielaudio.blogspot.com/2009/09/please-share-your-memories-of-jim-thiel.html#comment-form ... | |
| Joseph Audio Pulsar – Original vs. Graphene opinions? Thanks jpremm, that's really good to hear. I'm really hoping to send my pair to Jeff for the upgrade this spring. | |
| Joseph Audio Pulsar – Original vs. Graphene opinions? Thanks for chiming in @jpremm Wow, 18 inches off the rear wall seems like fairly close for the Perspectives. Good to hear they work well for you. You mention upgrading to the newest version of the Perspectives. Did you purchase brand new ... | |
| Thiel Owners Wonderful info Tom. The Amberwood CS6 is still one of the best looking speakers I've ever seen, let alone had in my place. BTW I also own some old Hales Transcendence speakers in what they called the Pau Ferro finish, and they look beautiful ... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel Just stumbled upon an old Stereophile review of the 2.2s. https://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/492thiel/index.html A quote: "What I admire most about these speakers is the fact that the product is so professionally done.... | |
| Why I'm not adding a sub to my 2-way monitors for music Actually Thiel made a number of subwoofers to go with his speakers. Apparently really excellent and made specially to blend with Thiel speakers, especially. So it's not like Thiel speakers were "subwoofer proof" or something. I know that a n... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” Movies are are sketchy example. Most writers lean away from real world in favor of sensational. Count me as one who don’t care. I disagree. I think the parallels work. Just like music tracks span the gamut of "acoustic sources recorded natural... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” It seems some who don't care about, or have abandoned any semblance to the real thing can't grok why anyone else would care. Here's my approach: The reason I got in to high end audio was having some life-changing encounters with audio systems, w... |