tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners unsound - agreed to these concerns. We are talking about perhaps a degree or so in a speaker that is already back-heavy and also has adjustabliity in the legs to extend them farther out in front if necessary. Thank you as always for your thoughts. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - outboarding the XO produces significant improvement itself, plus it allows component orientation options independent of the field effects of the drivers, and larger capacitors. All good. Later Thiel speakers often had the XO in the botto... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding Outriggers - Floor coupling is an important dimension for all speakers. Thiel’s outriggers broaden the base of support / footprint, with built-in adjustability for plumb and tilt. Their aesthetic matches later Thiel models nicely. Nice u... | |
| Thiel Owners devinplombier - no worries. I have consulted a variety of designers for feedback and input for our upgrade design approach and particulars. In this case we're re-balancing the SCS4 (as an option) for stand-mounting rather than bookshelf environmen... | |
| Thiel Owners In my fairly extensive wire and cable trials over the past few years, I found considerably more sonic variation between bi-wired cable and mono-wired cable. Since Thiel speakers were thoroughly engineered for single wire, that form represents the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Phase-time coherent speakers like Dunlavy, Thiel and Vandersteen may present a best case scenario for this bi-polar proposition. Their radiation field is already propagating in phase and in time from top to bottom as though it were a single driver... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - I have remembered that I also tried 'your' configuration in my Middle Crossing studio where we had a fairly large, well-proportioned, well tweaked room. I believe that duramax has two pair of CS5is, but I'm not aware that he has done thi... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - you or someone on this forum may have the reference where Jim suggested that arrangement. What I do remember is that his response was a reaction, not a serious suggestion. I have tried that setup for on-site recording playback monitors ... | |
| Thiel Owners My re-involvement with Thiel Audio began in earnest as I learned of New Thiel’s impending bankruptcy. I encouraged Rob Gillum to buy the service department, and worked with him over the years to fill in my knowledge blanks and share what I am lear... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding Thiel subwoofers - when I began my 2018 assessment of Thiel Audio’s value, I spent considerable effort to locate any/all information about the sebwoofers. I concluded that New Thiel had literally thrown it all in the dumpster. I engaged ... | |
| Thiel Owners I do not have intimate knowledge of the upgrade progression of the coaxes; they came after my time at Thiel. I do know how the path worked. Jim constantly isolated the weakest link of the products at large and worked on a solution to implement in ... | |
| Thiel Owners mchan888 - Gary Dayton at Coherent Source Service would have the definitive answer. More generally, I doubt that a black-centered driver is original. The CS7 had a black woofer with a donut-like center. The 7.2 had a white driver with white dustc... | |
| Thiel Owners Ron - can you describe ‘noisy’ in the CS3.7? | |
| Thiel Owners The 3.6 has passive radiator reflex bass, no equalizer. | |
| Thiel Owners All Thiel floorstanders are designed for an ear height of 3’ and an ear to tweeter distance of 8’ or more. On a CS1.5 @ 33" tall, you can position a rod on a block on top of the cabinet to use as a sight to your ear height. A laser and target work... |