tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Lloyd - what is the height dimension of your room? | |
| Thiel Owners jon - it could be anything in the entire chain from source to speakers. Time for classic, systematic troubleshooting. The likelihood of XO problems is very small, and XO problems tend to exhibit frequency-related / balance problems. A rubbing voi... | |
| Thiel Owners Max - what a fabulous setup! The DR79s are only 100 watts (stereo) into 8 ohms. We are dedicating them to bridged mono operation. Their stock power is rated at 1100 watts into 2 ohms. Hotrod will increase output. I realize that more is better, bu... | |
| Thiel Owners duramax747 - congratulations! The room is such a very big deal. Treat your AC mains like signal wires with star quad twisted runs, etc. and high grade receptacles, etc. Run off 240 volts where you can. Very worth the trouble. No, I haven't heard ... | |
| Thiel Owners The CS1.5 spent its whole life on Stereophile’s Class A (limited bass) list. But its design constraints are real - a seated listener at least 100" away. Also, the only baked-in timbral balance assumption is that it is on a floor. The anechoic (no ... | |
| Thiel Owners FWIW, if anyone has experience and opinions about the Gaia vs standard Thiel spikes, I'm interested in hearing about it. | |
| Thiel Owners Some thoughts regarding speaker height - Although the distance from the woofer to the floor has some relevance to the frequency content, its contribution is minor compared to the relative distance of each driver to the listener's ear. Those relat... | |
| Thiel Owners gryphon1972 - a few thoughts for you. Your room is indeed tiny, far too small to support bass resonant modes. The walls are substantially transparent to bass. But, on the other hand, your amp is so small that it may have trouble delivering enou... | |
| Thiel Owners duramax747 - I wonder if Rob would be interested in partnering with you. Perhaps he could be one of the customers and individuals could group-buy from you, and he could get additional inventory to sell to others. I would be interested to investiga... | |
| Thiel Owners About the wire thing - I’m living in that rabbit maze and it’s fascinating, complex and difficult. ll post more as I find time. A brief response to the ’solid or litz’ remark is YES. There are so many interacting variables of geometry, conductor p... | |
| Thiel Owners I based my dis-recommendation on multiple grounds. Rob knew the work and disrecommended it. I also know that Jim's approach is to balance the effects in the frequency and phase/time domains. We don't know how this XO tweak approaches that work. I... | |
| Thiel Owners Some remembrances of Amberwood. From its beginning, Thiel offered four primary veneers: Black Walnut, White Oak, Teak and Brazilian Rosewood (extra charge). Over time we stocked virtually anything that anyone requested. That was possible because ... | |
| Thiel Owners Nice - looks like what I was describing, except for sticker shock. Tom | |
| Thiel Owners In my considerable messing around with posts, augmented by some industry opinions that I trust - - - I suspect that geometry may be more important than materials. The original Thiel posts with plastic caps were compared to many 'superior' contend... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank you for the reminder. Such a complex puzzle, for something as simple as connecting stuff. |