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| Thiel Owners I love this thread! Whenever contrasting opinions are expressed (such as on the issue of cables), there is no name-calling or attempts to shout down disagreements. For guys like Prof and Brayeagle, who have tried a wide range of cables in their sy... | |
| Thiel Owners @thielrules,What an impressive undertaking and write-up! I must confess that I lack the knowledge required to judge the success of many of your choices in making mods on the original 3.5 design. My negative experience with equalizers in the past m... | |
| Top Ten "Definitions of an Audiophile" Audiophile: A lover of audio equipment who has more dollars than sense. | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,I completely understand your perspective on power cables. I've been a cable skeptic until recently and have mostly avoided diving down that deep black hole myself. And I don't want to get a big cable discussion going in this thread. But s... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,Hope the Stellar Gain Cell DAC/Pre sounds great in your system. If you decide you want to try a low-cost power cord upgrade for the DAC/Pre, the Audience Forte F3 has worked out well for me. This cord is a relative bargain that was highly... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,I can't say that I have done extensive preamp comparisons, but I have had a PS Audio Stellar Gain Cell DAC in my system for the last 6 months, and I like it a lot. The Gain Cell DAC/Pre replaced a Bryston .5B preamp I had used for many de... | |
| Thiel Owners arvincastro,I have been very pleased with how the PS Audio Stellar M700 Monoblocks match up with my Thiel 2.2 speakers. Bass control and impact are excellent, and the mids and highs are dynamic and highly musical. Of course, the overall sound is a... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,I don't have direct experience with Straight Wire's current products, but I did have a very helpful conversation with Jerry Willsie at Straight Wire about using Thiel speakers with my PS Audio amps and pre-amp. Jerry seemed very knowledg... | |
| Thiel Owners thielrules,I think your question was meant for 8th-note rather than for me. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,In response to your question about my StraightWire cables, I was using Encore speaker cables and Rhapsody II (RCA) interconnects in my system until just a few months ago. After switching to a PS Audio Stellar stack in early 2019, I decided ... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,All I can say is that Thiel figured out a way to make enough progress before you left the company that I'm still using Thiel 2.2s as my main speakers more than 25 years after I bought them. (And I'm also still using the original StraightW... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel,I love Jim's quote that "there are sonic effects that I don't know how to measure." This statement seems so simple and so obvious that it is amazing that so many audio measurement "experts" appear to believe that science has already achie... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,Thanks for the link to the Absolute Sound article. A very interesting history lesson. My first experience with anything better than zip cord was Monster Cable. I "graduated" to Straightwire in the 1990's, flirted with Audioquest and several... | |
| Bryston 4B3 or Ps Audio M700 monoblock? For those who don't know a lot about the Stellar M700 monoblock, It was designed by a passionate young engineer named Darren Myers, who is also a committed audiophile. He worked for Classe and B&W before being hired by PS Audio. His excitement... | |
| Bryston 4B3 or Ps Audio M700 monoblock? About 4 months ago, I replaced my classic Adcom 555-II amp with the PS Audio M700 mono blocks, and I have been very pleased with the upgrade in sound. The M700s are very clear, dynamic, and musical while running cool and not requiring a strong bac... |