tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Sorry for the sloppy writing. I meant that the problems of inferior caps cause those distortions which are mitigated and clarified by more nearly perfect capacitors. TT | |
| Why so few speakers with Passive Radiators? Lots of good information here about the various trade-offs of bass frequency production. I'll add one missing element of high consideration for some designers, which is system efficiency / sensitivity. The hard limit of bass output in a system est... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetlemania is right that the ClarityCaps were only used in the coax feed for the 2.4SEs. Jim and Gary and others performed extensive listening tests to isolate those 2 tweeter caps as the most critical improvements, and I am not second-guessing ... | |
| Thiel Owners I am interested in what caps are chosen by upgraders among you. I am presently researching my cap upgrades for the two pair of PowerPoint 1.2s I use for my mixing and mastering monitors, due to space limitations. That 6"x 1" coaxial is the same as... | |
| Thiel Owners Here's a thought from the archives about "bright Thiels". RonKent's observation re same system, different speakers . . . Within very close limits, the models represent nearly identical frequency response performance. But Ron's experience of increa... | |
| Thiel Owners I apologize in advance for what might be spotty participation. I travel and am highly involved in multiple projects. But on the other hand, I do appreciate this forum and the enthusiastic involvement you folks have in the sport. Regarding phase /... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello folks. I've been scanning this thread as time permits but life is short. By way of introduction, I was a founding partner and for the first 20 years was the director of manufacturing of Thiel Audio. I was intimately involved in all aspects o... |