tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Thank you. | |
| Thiel Owners Our plan is to have it available for a long, long while. There's plenty happening behind the curtain, but for now keep calling CSS as you have been for the past 7 years. | |
| Thiel Owners Hello Folks, For those of you who don't know, Gary Dayton has bought CSS from Rob Gillum who has retired for family needs. The transition has been January through May. Gary has made a formal announcement and provided more detail on the Thiel Aud... | |
| Thiel Owners andy2 - Up and down is a weak point of minimum phase, multi-driver transducers. The coax is much better than discrete drivers, but coax to woofer geometry still comes into play. Right-left-depth is their strong suit. The up-down problem is exacerb... | |
| Thiel Owners I ask because the 1.7 is in a 1.6 enclosure. The chief differences are an additional bucking magnet on the tweeter, and the star-plane woofer. I hope to find a 1.7 to dissect, listen to and measure. What is on my radar is to recreate Jim's CS1.7,... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - awhile back you commented on the sonic improvements from the CS1.5 to 1.6 and larger improvement to the CS1.7. I would love to hear your particulars about the 1.7 and how it seems better to you. | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - you’re on it, and the CS5 is the best example of thoroughness competing with directness. There are multiple reasons for that ’reticence’. A big one that Atkinson and Archibald underestimated is amplification. The amps they used were current... | |
| Thiel Owners Indeed. Thiel's requirements of passing a square wave / exhibiting a single, proper step response, etc. increase difficulty so much that most practitioners consider it impractical or even a fool's errand. We went for it despite the difficulties. ... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy2 and all - I say that neither Jim nor Thiel Audio would espouse valuing ’"time coherence above other aspects of sound reproduction". Our company was built around addressing and honoring ALL aspects of sonic/signal/musical reproduction as a w... | |
| Thiel Owners mchan888 Hello and welcome. This past summer I site recorded piano, bass, percussion and drums with my single-take, minimalist 2-mic documentary system, direct to SD at 32bit-192kHz. Earthworks QTC50s flat to 50kHz, no compression, eq, limiting,... | |
| Thiel Owners spacebird - the number before the decimal point is the model. Higher is bigger. The number behind the decimal point is the iteration. Higher is more recent. More recent products incorporate all the learned advancements (that can be afforded). Nex... | |
| Thiel Owners ronkent - I'm not questioning your listening preference, merely adding some design context. Regarding the resistor experiment, that would leave your preference in-tact while potentially illustrating for the group a different area of considera... | |
| Thiel Owners ronkent - You are addressing a major stumbling block of all audio reproduction. Most congestion / hardness that we perceive is heard in the high end. Most deficiency we hear is in the low end. Of interest is that our aural neurology construc... | |
| Thiel Owners ronkent - Regarding your mod. Be aware that the 3.7 mod that Rob suggested applies to only some speakers, not all. There was a QC problem with FST that required Thiel to test and characterize all incoming 3.7 coaxes and apply padding resistors as ... | |
| Thiel Owners devinplombier - yes these woods more than some others do change over time. I wanted to avoid stains when possible because the refractive index of bare wood is 3 dimensional and complexly enjoyable. Some dyes are minimally destructive, but pigm... |