tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Rob - the magnets are installed into blank-bottom holes drilled from the back of the baffle. I don't know how many are in the CS2.4. In the SCS4 there are 8. Two pairs about an inch from the top and bottom corners plus another 4 flanking the coax ... | |
| Thiel Owners Grilles - The issue is multi-faceted and full of trade-offs. Early 3s had wooden 3-D frames stretched with fabric. Fabric absorbs some high frequencies; Jim voiced assuming fabric. 1983’s CS3 used the baffle-level of the frame to complete the baff... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, grilles are a perpetual problem. But fragile drivers are a perpetual risk. I'm working on a more sheer grille that is not metal or foam. I haven't gotten re-conformation, but the CCs were scheduled to ship Feb 2, now March 2. | |
| Thiel 03a Drotti - The Audiogon Thiel Owners Forum can be joined easily. I don't remember exactly how. There is a help desk where you can ask. Anyhow, did you get an answer? The Thiel EQ is a discrete, dedicated equalizer that begins at 200Hz and applies b... | |
| Thiel Owners Robert - I’m sorry that at the present time my comments are more theoretical than practical. My experiments based on fundamentals is that I dislike any iron / steel and even anything electrically conductive in the high-intensity inductive field di... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - John’s system is decidedly low-key, and interesting for that. He had sold his system before early retirement to Sandwich. His primary source is streamed music via Tidal, generally high resolution with MQA option. He has a turntable, but I hav... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello All - regarding MQA. I’ve been paying attention to MQA and its claims since the beginning, and I have been somewhat bewildered by the fairly intense controversy surrounding it since the beginning. I know some mastering engineers who swear by... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - we have demonstrated various improvement avenues for any / all Thiel models. Beetlemania posted his 2.4 results on this forum. There have been others. The upgrades all leave the basic stock platform unaltered, but upgrade various aspects th... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - I really appreciate all the backgrounding you have done to point me to these Thiel speakers. Thank you. | |
| Thiel Owners And the MDF baffle, no matter how thick, is worth upgrading. I've settled on Torrified (heat-hardened) bamboo floor stock as an excellent, cost-effective brace material. Retrofitting isn't easy, but it's worth a good look. And the list goes on. I'... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I think of you as I have worked on the 02. Somehow the 02 just sounds 'right' to you. I get it. I have a pair of unmodified 02s, and my living situation has a pair in which I have tightened up the hand-wound coils and replaced the off-the-s... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - Thanks for asking, and I suspect an update is in order. I would characterize the present state of the HotRod Garage as ’distributed’. I have found suitable workspaces around the village with some being more suitable in warm than cold weather,... | |
| Thiel Owners That could very well be the Canadian price of the CS2.4. In the USA, Thiel acted as its own distributor, managing marketing, promotion, retailers, reviewers, service, etc. We attributed about 25% of our sell price to those functions. In foreign ma... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - sorry if I missed that. | |
| Thiel Owners masi61 - Greetings. There’s been no response most likely because there’s no safe answer. Everything depends on everything, and your room dimensions, absorption, damping and losses interact with the floor coupling. I, too, await with interest any o... |