tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| 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... | |
| 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 ... |