tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Prof - From the beginning in '74-'75 the goal was to find the best platform on which to build a line. We investigated (translate designed and built) spherical arrays, line sources, panels, folded horns, powered multi-driver speakers, and I may be ... | |
| Thiel Owners Peter Aczel attempted with the Audio Critic to reconcile the objectivist with the subjectivist models of evaluation. A watershed event was his endorsement of Andy Rappaport's AMP-1 which was a zero feedback, highly coherent power amp that carried ... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - that distinction may be the watershed between hi fi and high end. Hi fi, dominated by academic engineers, mathemeticians and physicists definitely listened with their fore-brains and negated the existence that couldn't at least be verifie... | |
| Thiel Owners One advantage a manufacturer has is the ability to compare samples with 0 to hundreds of burn-in hours. Speakers, cables, caps. Very interesting what one hears with an open mind. | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - at Thiel we all began as skeptics. Through thousands of experiments over dozens of years, we gradually adopted the Modus Operandi of believing what we hear, rather than what we understand. There are countless ways to lack cognition of exper... | |
| Thiel Owners Ron and Prof, Ron's 3.7s are new old stock as I interpret the particulars. Rob has various cabinets and parts and I believe he assembled that pair from such service parts. So, all the parts would be unused. Break-in is something that many engineer... | |
| Thiel Owners I believe that if home theater and other spectacular bass recordings (ie: 1812 Overture Canons) had not been on the rise, Thiel may have stuck with sealed enclosure bass. The CS5 was developed as a guidepost to the future; its tweeter went into th... | |
| Thiel Owners tms, I'm sorry I don't know the model numbers. One was a big Krell, another a pair of big Levinson monoblocs, and a Bryston. I was there on a visit and not really in the loop. Rob Gillum knows, but he is swamped with Coherent Source Service. I'll ... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof and Eagle, I really appreciate your thoughts; you have far more experience with the products than I do (one listening session in 2012I) I would need to get intimate the products before forming a hypothesis. I will say that the Model 2 has alw... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof, I had seen that quote from Phil here before. The story from Thiel doesn't really match all that well. Regarding the 2dB/decade, I don't really see that in my perusal of comparative test results. I wish that Stereophile had reviewed the 2.7 s... | |
| Thiel Owners Jeff, the point is that such a system (CSnext) required far more horsepower than available from an individual who may have played some minor role. Creating a design team after Jim's departure was a huge undertaking. The 2.7, 1.7 and MCS (#next) we... | |
| Thiel Owners For the record regarding product development. Jim was a sole developer with support from Gary, Rob, Kathy, etc. The 3.7 was his last product. The 2.7 was a spin-off, as the 2 series had always been. It took $6 figures to develop that product with ... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding CS3.7 iterations. I remember someone here getting 3.7 revision 2 crossovers from Rob. Can you tell us anything about the qualities of the revision? Thanks for any input you can offer. | |
| Thiel Owners Excuse me, that's 2.6 ohms.TT | |
| Thiel Owners Ron, I don't have enough history to comment on your situation. I am far away and out of touch and coalescing probabilities from sketchy evidence. The detailed lab records are MIA and most of what we know is in Rob's memory. I am gradually back-e... |