tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners FWIW - room size is a many-faceted thing. When we purpose built Thiel’s listening room, Jim specified a maximum size of 11,000 cubic feet. A larger room requires greater woofer excursion, which is difficult and expensive to achieve. That room work... | |
| Thiel Owners These comparative observations are quite interesting to me. As you know, Jim developed new technologies throughout his inventive career. Each new product incorporated something, or multiple things that were brand new. So the timeline becomes a par... | |
| Thiel Owners duramax 747 - send me a PM. I placed a factory ClarityCap order last week, but we can still add to it. We have to make parts decisions quickly to participate in this buy. | |
| Thiel Owners duegi - you're on it. I would not consider upgrading the 2.3 to 2.4 drivers. The crossover tunings take the cabinet particulars into consideration. Keep what you have. Note that outboard crossovers can benefit from a different layout because the... | |
| Thiel Owners duegi - your 2.3 serial numbers place them before the upgrade at 4567 which added a bucking magnet to the back of the midrange coax. That magnet has two principal effects: 1-greatly reduces stray magnetic fields to decrease interference with a TV,... | |
| Thiel Owners dolt - your go-to source of information and solutions is Rob Gillum at Coherent Source Service (dot com). Thiel’s pins have a sharp point, knurled grip ring, and a pair of miniature o-rings (or some combination of those features.) However, gene... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - a CS2.5 is presently a fantasy product. That's where Jim was going. With the proper designer-engineer further development of new products would have a solid foundation and deep heritage knowledge. Dreams keep the future interesting. | |
| Thiel Owners duramax 747 - Yes, indeed. The 7.2 wasn't on my radar, being a relatively new product with no service issues. But not that I'm getting a pair it becomes more a part of my working stable. The new wire (nearing finalization) and upgraded components,... | |
| Thiel Owners Jim said he wanted to refine the 2.4 mechanical-crossover tweeter with the 3.7-type radial wave diaphragm, for use in the 7.3 and then also apply it to a 2.5. Tons of potential goodness there - no crossover components is cleaner than great crossov... | |
| Thiel Owners Note 2.e should be 2.3 | |
| Thiel Owners The CS7 was created in the mid 90s transition between Vifa making the drivers we co-developed with them vs Thiel making everything in-house. That in-house driver manufacturing capability was in force before I left in 1995, but in its infancy. The... | |
| Thiel Owners I shouldn't be interested since I don't presently have a good playback room- it's a leap of faith. I've heard the 7.2 once at Rob's Coherent Source Service ten years ago, in a very compromised room. In fantasy-imagination land what do you suppose ... | |
| Thiel Owners roxy54 - Thanks for the tip. Looks like I'll be picking them up on my way to visiting Bill Thalmann in Virginia next month. | |
| Thiel Owners fsgattuso - the CS1.5 is a sweetheart! I’ve been using a pair this summer to run XO and wire experiments, along with mix and master evaluations. Mine are stock form, but have upgraded crossovers in their foreseeable future. I’ve observed that... | |
| Thiel Owners sdlr - I picked up a pair of near mint CS3.5s in Weschester County NY under similar circumstances. Big house, art dealer, posh entertainment - replacing the hi fi with Sonus in-wall and ceiling speakers fed from Spotify. He was most complimentary ... |