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| Thiel Owners solobone22 I'm sorry to say that I do not. I've invested considerable time and effort trying to find/locate that information, to no avail. I do have a new lead via access to some of Jim's back-up files. I'll let you know if I can crack that dat... | |
| Thiel Owners devinplombier - guess that was somewhat dense. Let's try again. If the 2 subwoofers have visible rubber mats on their cones, they have not been upgraded to CS5i status because the CS5i MDF plug replaced the rubber mats for mass loading. The MD... | |
| Thiel Owners devinplombier - I'll add some historic perspective to the answers already given. The CS5 was designed 'on demand', most notably for the Japanese market which wanted a 'Hear God' loudspeaker from Thiel. As such, the CS5 displaced a potential CS4... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom D - theaudiotweaktheaudiotweak All the factors you mention led us away from ports except for small / inexpensive speakers. A passive radiator obviates most of the problems you cite. For those ported models, my new work introduces both surface... | |
| Thiel Owners biannuzzi22 - I might shed a little light. You can fill in details with Rob at Coherent Source Service. As with all Thiel products, the first generation breaks ground and the next generation(s) add refinement. I can speak directly to the CS7 ... | |
| Thiel Owners theaudiotweak - Tom, I don't remember ever studying port position. When we were developing our knowledge base, the opinions, even among the academic / gurus was wide and varied and often contradictory. We found that ports placed near boundaries,... | |
| Thiel Owners Cabinet leak is a good idea. External is unlikely unless there has been cabinet damage. Loose driver screws could cause a leak. Also between the large/woofer enclosure and the 6" midrange tube enclosure. Check that by pressing the midrange and see... | |
| Thiel Owners caseywkc - you have ruled out the woofer. Have you tended to the inner passive surround? There's an outer and inner surround. Here goes a strange and wonderful exploration. I've used my pair of 2.2s as workhorses since 1990 and conducted my ea... | |
| Thiel Owners I apologize in advance for many of you who have heard this before . . . I am a big fan of the sealed bass in the CS3 and 5 series. In fact, Thiel was philosophically committed to sealed bass in its upper models, while allowing reflex bass in its l... | |
| Thiel Owners tmsrdg - patience is the key. The 3.7 is late model classic Thiel. Its ’needs’ are far closer to ’wants’ than earlier models which have far more real problems, upgrade potential and far more head-count in the field. But to address your question,... | |
| Thiel Owners tmsrdg - it’s weird stuff, and addresses something where Thiel already excels. The terrain is the integrity (or not) of how the driver energy translates into the limp air-mass for you to hear detail. Thiel’s bezels, waveguides and curved baffles w... | |
| Thiel Owners I'll throw some thoughts into the mix. Critical listening in an unknown space with unfamiliar gear and recordings is a challenge. In this case, the room had been designed to be modifiable for feedback from FuzzMeasure analysis, with which I am qu... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello all - it was quite a trip with driving nearly 3000 miles and Thiel Renaissance business in PA, Lexington, Charlottesville, Bluemont VA and the storm of a lifetime in Northern MA after dark yesterday. Three days with Max near Charlottesville ... | |
| Thiel Owners vair68robert - Good for you. What you call 'smooth with the 400uF cap, some have also called 'refined'. My word is 'homogenized'. The smoothness is definitely a loss of information, notably in the time domain. You do want the 550uF value. That's... | |
| Thiel Owners Two questions: 1 - Could you tell any difference between the single 400uF vs the 4 x 100uF midrange feed caps? 2 - Are you saying that you had to use a different cap value to attain the 550uF target? If so, that's odd because electrolytics gene... |