sdecker
Responses from sdecker
| Thiel Owners ydjames With the praises you heaped on the QLN Prestige 3, and the near-identity of your upstream gear with that of your 'close friend', it seems a trip to his home with your CS2.7s to compare would answer a lot of questions for you, your frie... | |
| Thiel Owners Professional tape machines suffer in modern comparisons because they're all at least 25 years old, with technology and electronics that are even older. Whether multi-track or 2-track mixdown, most of the mechanical parts are worn-out and unavaila... | |
| Thiel Owners As good as the Sansui AU9900 may have been / was in 1975, amplifier technology is now so many generations of sound quality beyond that as to make it likely unlistenable compared with a Classe CAP-101 or similar. How is the Sansui much differen... | |
| Thiel Owners Well the SA10 is twice the price of the SA-11S2 and designed nearly a decade later, so I would certainly expect it to sound better, especially following the critical feedback Marantz got from their relatively murky sonics back in the day. The fro... | |
| Thiel Owners Thirty days from now I expect you'll post equally thorough impressions of this player. Or at least PM me. YMMV. I hope! | |
| Thiel Owners As jafant is the original poster of this 199 page thread, and specifically asked me to comment here about my impressions of a disc player he purchased, I'll respond. I'm not hijacking the thread, or he's not telling me I'm not, but my long-winded... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant I'll be interested to read your impressions of the SA11S2, though not sure how much detail you'll post on a speaker forum. I auditioned one at home for 30 days when they were newly released, and sent it back...Perhaps we should compare n... | |
| Thiel Owners Wow Beetlemania, you're my kind of audiophile. The few times I posted similar details, and the proper test engineering of listening and evaluating each set of changes, then ranking them, I've been met with crickets. As such, my post you're respo... | |
| Thiel Owners Just catching up with the past week of posts -- about 2.4s. Surprised to learn this was Thiel's lowest-volume speaker, building on the successful 2.3, with a good economy for the first 5 years of production when most would have sold, and a still-... | |
| Thiel Owners I've made a point to have "Lincoln"-like friends to evaluate changes in my own system over the decades. Changes I (and other audiophile friends) may be too caught up in the minutiae to make an unbiased evaluation. I think half the reason the Lin... | |
| Thiel Owners @bellesfan I still have my 2.3s and have been listening primarily to my 2.4s since 2006. I can tell you despite the similar external appearance, there are MANY changes between the two speakers that make them very different. Some tweaks may be m... | |
| Thiel Owners @thoft as your comment above is aligned with my recent comments of perhaps finally hearing the reality of coherence for the first time in 20 years of Thiel ownership, I'll of course throw in my 2 cents worth with a long essay :-|I've been going t... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound I'm not sure why any single-driver cone speaker wouldn't deliver reasonably accurate step and impulse response. Sure, they may be compromised by dispersion, frequency extremes, SPL limitations, but so long as they're free from a crossov... | |
| Thiel Owners Would my and unsounds observations of a more relaxed sound from fully coherent box and cone speakers also apply to full-range panel speakers like Martin Logan CLS, Quad ESL? And for that matter all the single driver cone and box speakers li... | |
| Thiel Owners Even though it took me twenty years of listening mostly to Thiels as my primary speakers, I'm amazed I never heard this relaxed/rightness/ease/naturalness/grace so dramatically until after a month of listening to a very good non-coherent speaker.W... |