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| Why no “Break in” period? Nelson Pass, John Curl, and Ralph Karsten all believe in equipment break-in, burn-in, or what ever you want to call it. The late Charles Hansen did as well. The point wouldn't be that some electronics designers think AUDIBLE break in occurs (not... | |
| New Old Thiel CS6 Speakers--Too Harsh I had the Thiel CS6 and it's hard to imagine someone's description being more opposite from what they sounded like at my place.For me they were beautifully smooth, rich, easy to listen to, with some of the most dense, punchy, focused bass and amon... | |
| Thiel Owners For those 2.7 fans or owners here’s an old, obscure review of the Thiel 2.7s in a Chinese audio magazine:https://review.u-audio.com.tw/reviewdetail.asp?reviewid=628Will require googletranslate. Though I found using the Chrome browser, which offers... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,I’ve assumed (or maybe read somewhere) that Thiel designed their speakers to be used with the grills on (as in the sonic effects of the grill were accounted for in the design).Is that correct?I’ve always listened with grills on, and it se... | |
| Most annoying song, period. OMG, I just found out the name of the song that for me was the most ear-tearing experience of 1990. Stevie B - Because I Love YouIt is THE most soppy R&Bish ballad ever, with the most horrible mincing, mewling, wining, embarrassing vocal ever ... | |
| Thiel Owners andy,Yes that's a fair point. Though I think to a degree.But there is so much that you can adjust via speaker positioning/room acoustics, especially when we are talking about things like an assertive treble, that it makes sense as a first step be... | |
| Thiel Owners dsper,Seems you are way ahead of me on this. I hope you get things going your way.I had the CS6s way back which were very much like the 7s and I actually found them to be very smooth. Though driving them with Conrad Johnson tube amps helped :-) | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the report thielrules!As I've said so many times, I think the Thiel 3.7s will remain near-SOTA anywhere around their price-point for a long time.I haven't heard the 7s for ages, but have no doubt they are competitive with (and better th... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Dsper,Playing with speaker position and room acoustic will yield differences that swamp what you’d get switching around digital sources.(And btw, I’m not in the camp that says every digital source sounds the same). You should be able to alter t... | |
| Thiel Owners tmsrdg,I'm not turning the thread in to a cable debate. I don't want to go in to any depth on cables 'n stuff in this thread. That's why I made such a short comment.But on the subject of merely talking about these things, I believe you have an ... | |
| Thiel Owners Dsper,I am interested in other Thiel owner opinions regarding transports and DACs and at what point a listener needs to start playing with interconnects.You don't need to play with either. (And certainly not transports...and streamers/servers d... | |
| What do you say to your audiophile friends who say you just listen to your equipment more No friend has ever said that to me. Even friends who aren’t interested in hi-fi seem to understand I’m in to music and good sound. And certainly I don’t bother forcing it on anyone who doesn’t care.Most of my friends are not audiophiles, though ... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance mahgisterOk, thanks for clarifying that for me. I have no desire to ridicule your system. No one needs to turn in to a scientist in this hobby. I certainly can't "objectively verify" the performance of everything in my system, and I'm fine with ... | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance mahgister,It's often hard to tell on the internet so I have to ask: Was your last post a joke, or do you really make/use the tweaks you described? | |
| The Truth About Power Cords and there "Real" Price to Performance nonoise,Ok, I can see your point of view in your follow-up post. Thanks. |