tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Sil - I like your choice. It is where we landed after considerable study. I and beetlemania will be posting progress on this forum. As the solutions become finalized, we will set up some form of communication through CoherentSource. But for now, j... | |
| Thiel Owners ish - I would be speculating as well. I have heard that the SSs stay out of the digital domain, therefore accomplishing their requirements in analog, and probably doing it such as you suggest. I can offer no real insight. However, I am still looki... | |
| Thiel Owners Ken - my answer to your PM bounced. I give them a high likelihood of success. | |
| Thiel Owners Jan - I hope I am not dominating this forum, but I enjoy sharing what I've learned. I have compared single and stereo SS1 and SS2 subwoofers in my studio with PowerPoint 1.2s as room mastering monitors. The stereo pair presents a decidedly more be... | |
| Thiel Owners The 2.4 and 2.4SE share identical drivers and circuits. The only difference is the sophistication of the feed capacitors for the coax driver. That PXO is the one you want. | |
| Thiel Owners Just suggesting that particular impedance issue. | |
| Thiel Owners audiojan - nice system. I do have a reservation about the Bel Canto. The site states minimum impedance 3 ohms. Some class D amps hit a brick wall at their minimum impedance. The CS2.4 drops to 2.73 ohms at 600 Hz. I wonder if you might be running ... | |
| Thiel Owners jon- Rob Gillum at CoherentSource Service makes the PXO modification to match the Thiel speaker of your choice. audiojan- your experience is classic: distance from the walls makes for better image and evenness, but those very walls were reinforcin... | |
| Thiel Owners kdross - congratulations on your CS2s. Thiel made more of those than any other model. It is possible that the loud levels did the damage if fed by an amp with insufficient power to deliver a clean signal. It is unlikely that the woofers or any of ... | |
| Thiel Owners Ish - Duh. I believe the SSs are all analog, so delays and so forth can't be easily implemented. For example, dsper's upper and lower mid drivers needed 3/8" and 1/2" time delay which took, if I remember correctly, more than 40 bucket brigade capa... | |
| Thiel Owners ish - I am interested in your SW1. Please contact me via PM.Regarding the boundary management software, I would only be guessing. I do know as you outline, that Jim would not have addressed the problem via EQ. I believe there are patents on what h... | |
| Thiel Owners No. Lobing is inherent in first order filter slopes; it has to do with additive phase physics. If one tried to massage or average the lobed output, it would adversely affect the power response. However, the sloped baffle (rather than discrete step... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - the dispersion at the midrange upper end is narrower than the tweeter's lower end. The wave guide creates some directionality at the low end of the tweeter to better match the midrange for smoother image projection vs frequency. They wer... | |
| Thiel Owners Bray - what is the difference between the SS2 and SS2.2. What is your "late model" serial number? | |
| Thiel Owners Bray - I only know the broad outlines from observations and a few conversations. The SW1 came out in 1997 from work Jim had been doing for about 5 years. That was early Class D and incorporated thermistor compensation and shaping circuitry ; the S... |