tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners I don't know that gear, but I have some relevant experience. First, with regenerated power with good specs and enough storage, it doesn't need to be reconditioned. Proper regeneration is proper power. When mixing and mastering music and burning fi... | |
| Thiel Owners Dan, I don't know that amp. The power specs look great and they withhold the lower impedance specs due to AC-mains overload with all channels firing. Nothing like a real audition to prove its merits to you. | |
| Thiel Owners dspr, my recollection (unreliable) is that there were no electrolytic caps in the CS5. Film caps are stable or get better with age. I'll keep an eye and ear out to confirm my suspicion. Does anybody know? | |
| Thiel Owners thielrules, troubleshooting is a hands-on undertaking. I'll speculate a little, but the problem needs actual triage, both speakers and the eq.The deep bass looks like the green channel has the eq and the red channel does not: textbook 12dB/octave ... | |
| Thiel Owners thielrules, I can't read your attached files nor do I have a 3.5 schematic.Although the role of caps is to block low frequencies and the woofer circuit doesn't have caps in its series feed, there are some smaller values in the shunt circuits which... | |
| Thiel Owners Thos, Replacement models are generated to push the art, grow the company and generate new interest. The old products aren't really old or defective, in fact in many ways Thiel designs out-do many contemporary products. The 2.3 and 2.4 are conceptu... | |
| Thiel Owners Ob, Used gear offers great opportunity, with some cautions. Most gear, including Thiel speakers use electrolytic capacitors. Even very high quality E caps have a projected life of 25 to 40 years. Rob says he has never seen a Thiel outright cap fai... | |
| Thiel Owners Jon, I accept your perspective. The doubling itself is less important than is having the required power at 2 ohms. So, the most important factor is how well the amp performs at 2 ohms, which is the critical impedance of Thiel designs. That said, t... | |
| Thiel Owners Ob, the Mac you cite is current-limited by definition. If it doesn't double from 8 to 4, that means there is insufficient power to do so, whatever combination that power comes from storage capacitors (instantaneous) or transformers (sustained). Be... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof, you're right about the "hollowing effect". Phase cancellation is a central problem making first-order implementation very treacherous. The output of 2 combined drivers produces a lobe which cancels or augments output when the "listener" is n... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof, as a technical note, that wavy driver behaves better than any of the previous cone drivers as well as supports the tweeter wave-form launch very nicely. Therefore the direct series crossover path is simpler than any previous Thiel driver. Ji... | |
| Thiel Owners For the record, the CS1.6 is on my upgrade list, as it has sophisticated, all-Thiel drivers and represents the pinnacle of the 1-series (pre-coincident driver) and there were thousands of pairs produced. There has been no expressed interest in th... | |
| Thiel Owners Dn, sounds like a wonderful setup. I don't know those amps, but can offer some general thoughts. This group might offer opinions of the Lyngdorf. Read between the lines, it might be class D and/or digital amplification, which you would have to son... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello folks; just letting you know that no grass is growing under my feet. I am making good strides toward first test samples. The CS2 2 development has dropped back till autumn and the PowerPoint and CS2.4 are now the first-tier projects. The big... | |
| Thiel Owners Indeed wire is a squirrelly stew. Considerable knowledge exists, much of it in the realm of very high tech-space research-at the fringe of measurement. High end audio "found" wire as a new frontier in the 1970s and some very good work has been don... |