tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners The drivers became more rigid, operating more smoothly over a wider band-pass and therefore the compensation networks became fewer and simpler. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - 2 ohm loads suck and amps give up. Thanks.Jay - The CS2 2 and 2.3 represent a major tide change. The 2 2 uses all discrete Thiel-designed x Vifa manufactured drivers. They are conventional as single-band (woofer, mid, tweeter), although ... | |
| Thiel Owners Jon - Thanks for the Bryston idea. Indeed Classe DR9 is polite and a little "tubey". Bryston might be a good counterbalance. Pops - I have never felt the need to better my CS2 2s. I'm looking forward to hearing what my XO upgrade work might bring ... | |
| Thiel Owners Check out "On Golden Pond" which was filmed on Squam. The beauty here is embedded in the mentality and actions of the community. | |
| Thiel Owners I live in New Hampshire where the White Mountains meet Lake Winnepesaukee and Squam. Small village life, pretty far from mainstreet USA. | |
| Thiel Owners Ron - thanks for the link. I hope to put a BHK in the voicing mix, probably the 250 to voice toward real-world amps that Resurrected Thiels might be used with. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - the CDs are being considered for bypasses in the woofer shaping circuits. As PolyPropylenes they are less expensive than the PolyStyrene RTXs which will provide more detail in the upper range. I am reaching for a level of finesse beyond w... | |
| Thiel Owners In a new twist of priorities, the SCS4 has come up on my radar.It shares a driver & XO basics with the PowerPoint, my first project. The SCS4 has a crossover for Thiel SmartSubs. Any interest out there in A'gon Land? | |
| Thiel Owners PW - I am all ears for as much detail as you care to share regarding your auditioning. The Crossover Upgrade Project is addressing all aspects of crossover performance. Jim's CS2.4 Signature Edition significantly upgraded tweeter feed capacitors, ... | |
| Thiel Owners Dsper - I have long experience with CJ and McC DNA - both are excellent in my opinion. Be careful not to confuse tonal color (CJ=dark) with a perceived problem (bright treble at high volume.) A sweeter preamp might make the problem less evident, a... | |
| Thiel Owners A real problem with Thiel speakers is how ruthlessly they reveal upstream problems. That's not to say they themselves might be the problem, but . . . A tell-tale is that if you can extract excellent or trouble-free performance from an excellent so... | |
| Thiel Owners Dsper - I suspect something other than your speakers or amps. Your room setup may invite improvement (they always do), but rarely cause high frequency problems, except from side-wall bounce. Is there a hard surface where you would see the speaker ... | |
| Thiel Owners Effort actually goes into minimizing the weight of the speaker. Each element: panels, braces, driver structures and diaphragms, etc. tries to get as stiff as possible per unit mass, in order to drive resonances higher in frequency where they are h... | |
| Thiel Owners Robin - Yes, the SmartSubs are Class D. Jim began working on those amps with a very talented designer at/from Vifa in the late 80s. They put quite a bit of sophistication into those designs, which were done in the early dark ages of Class D. Impe... | |
| Thiel Owners I caution that we should distinguish between makes & models rather than commenting on "class D amps" in general. A lot of progress has been made with switching rates and filters so that some class D amps are leagues ahead of other class D amps. |