sdecker
Responses from sdecker
Thiel Owners Laughing harder, that you actually *are* in conflict resolution and counseling without my knowing a thing about you! Goes to show what I pick up on when my wife's a therapist, my neighbor a professional mediator, my father a (former) college prof... | |
Thiel Owners jafant is clearly someone who works in mediation, conflict resolution, marriage counseling, or a college professor. Or fears discord in his 150 page thread! It's all good.Makes me satisfied that Steve McCormack thoroughly modified his already-st... | |
Thiel Owners I believe that a peer would have been good for him, his products, his company, and its future. But he never found that place. We all make our way the best we can. Thiel Audio carried him pretty well. This is a very sweet and succinct assessment... | |
Thiel Owners These numbers were chosen as an example, but isn’t as unlikely as it seems. These are peak levels taken from the listening position (9’) from a pair of speakers playing (2 speakers = +3dB) with some room boost, and C-weighting (accounting for most... | |
Thiel Owners @tomthiel, sorry I was off the forum for a week and didn't see your response about 2.7 development until recently. I'm unclear why the 2.7 needed a HIGHER frequency woofer XO point than the 2.4's 1000Hz. The 3.7's 4.5" midrange should be able to... | |
Thiel Owners Can anyone direct me to the pages that would have specific 2.4 vs 2.7 listening comparisons? My understanding is the entire 2.7 low-frequency system is pure 2.4 (cabinet loading, woofer itself, radiator, XO tweaks only to better match woofer ... | |
Thiel Owners jafant, it was sold as a nominally 100wpc stereo power amp. Steve McCormack's estimates of mine is 125/250/500 wpc 20-20k@<1% THD into 8/4/2 ohms, absolute stability into 1 ohm, and as much as 60A peak current delivery depending on the measure... | |
Thiel Owners Thielrules, It seems your takeaway is IF you spend all the money on tri-amping, finding which drivers to replace or update with limited available resources, and (to some of us, compromising your signal chain by) using DSP that's not commonly done ... | |
Thiel Owners In response to Andy 2 "Monday Quarterbacking" I'll offer that over the 40 year Thiel sales history, perhaps 10% of their buyers knew what a first-order crossover was, its real benefits and challenges. And perhaps 1% of those buyers knew the engin... | |
Thiel Owners "Acoustic Suspension" is a distinct variation on "Sealed" and I’m still not certain why that went so entirely out of favor for ported designs nearly universally decades ago. Make the cabinet a little bigger, power through a couple dB less effic... | |
Thiel Owners I've never been certain how the 2.4 steel frame grille plate affects the diffraction 'problem' as it tightly surrounds the coax with 3 cuts at about 20 degrees, 0 (vertical), and 30 deg. But the steel still presents as an edge, a discontinuity, f... | |
Thiel Owners @andy2That's exactly my concern, problematic diffraction effects for the sake of "aesthetic appeal" fly in the face of all I came to know of Jim Thiel's design ethic. And yes, he was alive and kicking throughout the CS2.4 project.@beetlemania If... | |
Thiel Owners @tomthiel Sure wish I could post images directly. Doing a google image search on the speakers in question will produce a few with the correct angle to view the issue at hand, below.The 1.6 (and 1.7) are similar to the 2.4 about my concern of ... | |
Thiel Owners It turns out I *did* post to this forum about my 2011 XO upgrades on 2/2/18 (pg 49), with beetlemania and others acknowledging my relatively early surgery. My 2.4s are fairly early production (SN 611,612) so I can confirm the high(er) quali... | |
Thiel Owners @beetlemaniaI do remember PMing a couple AG members about my specifics after I posted about my experiences. Were you one?All your thoughts are well-taken. I perhaps wasn't clear on a couple points you expounded on. Thiel's 1uF bright yellow fil... |