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| Thiel Owners Unsound, I mostly agree with your preference for the 3.5 but can't say that it is better then the 3.7. | |
| Thiel Owners My waveguides came off easily. Don't remember any difficulties separating them from the driver. To the best of my knowledge, Rob does not included the waveguide as he told me to reuse the guides. | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, when you say that you listen at spl peak of 90 dB, is that at listening position and if so, how far from the speakers or is that near field? | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound and Tom. As you know the 3.5 individual drivers are all above the 5 ohm across the whole range and combined stay above 4 ohms. Makes it very suitable for tri amping or bi amping. I would guess that bi amping the bass and mid-tweeter with o... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, with a tri amp setup, do you hear other benefits besides better matching of the amp to the driver?Regarding amp preferences for the 3.7, it all depends how loud you want to play and how big your room is or distance from the speakers. The 3.7 ... | |
| Thiel Owners I believe that it is the opposite. One ahb2 works fine but the mono. Ahb2 has a higher impedance and won't work. Check with benchmark. | |
| Thiel Owners Sounds like the collection that came from the Thiel museum when thiel went under. | |
| Amp recommendation to drive Thiel 3.6 speakers In my opinion, you are better off biamping these speakers. As these speakers are not coming with double binding posts, you would have to add these. Drive the mids and tweeter with one channel, and the woofer with the other channel. Any pair of dec... | |
| Thiel Owners Jhouse, those speakers look like they have the same color as a pair that I have, and teak seems right. However the finish of your speaker is not original and will need some work to rehabilitate. Tom has probably some good suggestions what to do. | |
| Thiel Owners George, congrats. Your presence here is always appreciated. Make every day count, life is precious. | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, i really appreciate your candor and transparency. A good reason to take another look at the 5i series. Your ideas about the Renaissance 3.5 are very much in line with my explorations, using triamps and dsp to test the range of possibilities. ... | |
| Thiel Owners I assumed that chamber for the coax in the 3.7 and 2.7 were about the same and as Rob had the prototype of the 2.7 available, I used that to compare to the chamber volume of 3.5 | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound, the chamber volume for the coax requires almost a doubling of the space that the 3.5 offers for the mid-range driver (using space measurement of the cavity of the 2.7 compared to 3.5). Most practical way would be an expansion of the chamb... | |
| Thiel Owners Talked several times to Rob about the 10F as the mid-range replacement but never got excited about this option in spite of Rob's claim that it was the best replacement. The difference is size should affect the time coherence even if it may not be ... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound, I seriously explored that option with Rob and measured the cut out and increase in volume that would be needed. Concluded that it is doable and the coax driver are available and if you need to replace both the mid-range and tweeter, finan... |