tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - Amberwood and Morado were both names that we coined. As most of our 1989 CS5s were being ordered in Rosewood, and our Rosewood was true Brazilian Rosewood, and since the term 'Rosewood' had been applied for decades to another ... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - thanks for this input. It makes sense, including the context of return to a foundational idea before the company's launch - but with a life time of experience. Jim built every design on all the accumulated knowledge gained along the way.... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I know very little about this topic, only what was 'leaked' by an insider and not denied by another. But, as I said, the approach harkens back to the very beginning, before we settled on dynamic drivers in an enclosure; and it attends to o... | |
| Thiel Owners Thiel Non-Model History – products that never were - Prof – thank you for this question. Indeed we’ve covered a lot of Thiel history here over the years, but little about developments and decisions behind the curtain. This story would fill a memo... | |
| Thiel Owners Massimo - The early 3.5 tweeter feed used a 6.5uF feed cap. It was tweaked in 1987 to 8uF, which is what you want. Only buy now if you need it. I will have a much better replacement soon. The 3.5 mid and tweeter are front-burner projects. We are ... | |
| Thiel Owners Marqmike- PM sent | |
| Thiel Owners beetlemania - Biwire is a special case. There are theoretical and empirical advantages. I've gotten good results with internally-biwired cable (in the same jacket). Problems arise with separate runs that the speaker designer can't control. An ind... | |
| Thiel Owners beetlemania - I’m brewing the tea we started those several years ago. It’s getting richer and stronger. Among the many lessons learned were real developments in wire and cable. You and I both like Cardas; very well conceived and executed desi... | |
| Thiel Owners gmosley - Room placement is an art of its own. This forum can guide you to literature / information on that subject. Thiel products are wide-dispersion transducers, so try to keep them away from side walls or treat the walls more so than with many... | |
| Thiel Owners thieleste - I concur with vair68robert - Cardas is a good, albeit expensive, solution. Background in brief: Thiel discovered its 18-2 x tight twist in teflon via aerospace, and solved otherwise insurmountable problems developing the 1978 model 03... |