tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners John - Jim worked hard in the CS1.6 to bring the sensitivity up. His spec was 90dB@2.83V. Stereophile’s review measured 94dB. So, amps far less powerful than for normal Thiels will work on the 1.6. The impedance runs just under 4 ohms across the b... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I agree with you. The equalizer does everything right sonically. The bass extension rolls off at the bottom at 12dB/ octave like real unamplified output. The upper frequency electronic ’tizz’ is solved with the new unit. Our problem, es... | |
| Thiel Owners In the early years, Thiel considered reflex bass as a necessary cost-compromise only for entry level products ie home theater and models 1 and 2. When it came time to replace the CS3.5 with the 3.6, I resisted going to reflex bass in the 3, which ... | |
| Thiel Owners Correction - the CS1.7 is the CS1.6 next-generation tweeter (not coax.) | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - Gary can handle all your needs. He was a rising star at Thiel and after resigning in the early New Thiel era he became Bryston's USA sales manager and then worldwide Marantz brand manager for Sound United. When that company became turbulent... | |
| 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,... |