tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners sdl4 - Thank you for your response. From my personal perspective as an ageing audiophile, I don't see many younger folks having any real interest in listening to reproduced music beyond MP3-type entertainment and/or media rooms. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - the shortage of high-functioning practitioners is a real problem in our field. Over the years, and particularly in Jim's waning years, Thiel actively sought someone to carry Jim's work forward. The search involved professional assistance ... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - it is a great hobby. For me, audio has been at the core of my work-life. In addition to Thiel Audio I've consulted for other manufacturers, made and upgraded stringed instruments, produced concerts, and worked with musicians in various wa... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - Yes. Remember the Classé DR6 and pair of DR9s? They've been incubating at Music Technology for a couple of years. He finished the preamp, including the phono stage in pretty high fashion. We used a lot of ClarityCaps including some CMR se... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - I'll check that out. I'll be visiting him early October. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob's Coherent Source Service is back up this morning. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - I also get a dead link, but I haven't heard any news. I'll post when I reach him. Rob will know the answer, but I can offer speculation. No. Not the same. The CS6 woofer is a reflex design which has different T/S parameters than the seal... | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - please explain what you mean by 'I reversed polarity and got nothing'. I'm addressing learning whether all 6 drivers are going positive (pushing air) when they are fed a positive DC pulse from the battery. | |
| Thiel Owners Isolating the issues increases understanding. Success sometimes follows. | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - a polarity test may be in order. Use a 6 volt ’lantern battery’ or a 9 volt with great care to only touch and release the terminal briefly. Put + to + (red) and each driver should move forward. You’ll have to feel the tweeter, but the mid ... | |
| Thiel Owners trevor - something is wrong. Please read the Stereophile reviews of the 3.6 and PCS to get a feel for the particulars of the bass. Then let's wade into why yours aren't performing properly. My limited experience with the 3.6 does not include bass ... | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - Jim's MO was to design each model to its full potential. In the case of small speakers, the trade-off was how deep the bass goes. Yours are about 50Hz anechoic, possibly deeper in your room. The PCS gets a big boost by having the 4" midran... | |
| Thiel Owners No, I don't know. There are many things that would be nice to know, but I wasn't there, Rob doesn't know, Tim Tipton, our purchasing manager who retired around 2005 might know (or have known), but there's no practical way to track that down. Bill ... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - That SCD-1 in on the shelf awaiting the right opportunity to set it up. That was Thiel's unit that I took to Bill Thalmann two years ago. He failed to salvage the SACD side, and he said the CD side had been well hot-rodded. I picked it u... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks, guys. I suppose I hoped that I had missed a simple, digital-only spinner that cost less due to absence of D-A conversion. Semi-portable would be nice to pair with a PS Sprout 100, etc. But, I guess optical discs diminished before separate ... |