tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners Lloyd - I've had good results from pleated-cell blinds - the heavier audio-grade variety. Draperies work best when pleated to provide air spaces and an undulating surface. Beware that too much absorption can kill the dynamics. Start with a little ... | |
| Thiel Owners loydvii - not long ago in this forum there was a list of likely cable candidates for Thiel speakers. I would like to add Straightwire to that list. Specifically their Octave II (now III) series incorporates all of Straightwire's core technologies... | |
| Thiel Owners lloydviii - thanks for the room clarification. Whereas 12’x12’ is really bad, your room lies on the edge of the ’Bolt Area’ of ideal proportions. Your additional adjoining spaces almost always make things even better. Exposed glass is problematic.... | |
| 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... |