tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Guys - I'm shopping for ideas. In assembling a system approachably priced for musicians and other non-audiophile music lovers, I hope to find a CD transport of merit. My hope is to find a good player for CD - with a plus for SACD, DVD-A, etc. A di... | |
| Thiel Owners Adcom amps - a fair question is why. In a world with new low-distortion amps and Benchmark’s AHB2 selling for $3K, why bother with vintage amps? We recently recommended an Adcom GFA 555 mkII as a viable, low-cost choice. I compared my 555mkII to a... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - yep, that's the idea. I have a pair on loan and like to keep one pair stock and modify the other. I have very little personal experience with the coax Thiels. The 2.4 is an elegant little thing and I'm looking forward to living with it. | |
| Thiel Owners oblgny - I'm a candidate. | |
| Thiel Owners stanleym9999 - Don't discount Goretz. I overlooked it because I haven't personally heard it. Jim landed there. It presents some difficulties to some amps, but the Zobel networks address that. Let us know where you land. Cable takes us to such co... | |
| Thiel Owners You may want to know the imput and output (source) impedances of the 3.5 equalizer, which are typical of line level devices. Input: 91kohms, Output (source) 130ohms. | |
| Thiel Owners stanleym9999 - I'll add a little to the cabling advice. In my cabling comparisons I like StraightWire. It helps to use the ame product family that Jim used in designing the product. At this time, I asked Steven Hill for his recommendation. He sup... | |
| Thiel Owners TomD - I interpret what you're saying as decoupling the crossover from its environment via optimal tuning, such as the various mass/stiffness springs tend to quiet themselves quickly. That can work, but requires ongoing vigilance since the stiffne... | |
| Thiel Owners CS3.5 update As you know, I've been investigating internal hookup wire this spring and summer. It's been quite a long and winding ride. Among the twists and turns has been learning how some wire configurations interface with other wire configurat... | |
| Thiel Owners Adcom power amp comparisons The two Adcom GFA555s arrived yesterday and I compared them to each other, to the GFA555 II, to Sennheiser HD800S headphones, and to the Benchmark AHB2. Brief report to follow. A fair prior question is ’why’. My prese... | |
| Thiel Owners http://www.audioupgrades.com/upgrades/upgrades.htm Jim works in the professional world. He does this particular Adcom GFA555 because he uses it in his rig. | |
| Thiel Owners The Adcom / Benchmark comparison was a response to trickeydude’s call for a good, inexpensive amp for Thiels. Plus, I have a personal interest in the journey of that GFA555 moniker from a Nelson Pass, simple, low parts count design to a different ... | |
| Thiel Owners harrylavo - from page 235. I spent a couple hours this afternoon comparing the Benchmark AHB-2 to your recommended Adcom GFA555 II. Both amps are bridged, running the same CS1.5 (stock) in mono. I must say that the Adcom acquits itself nicely. Th... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob should be OK. He's in Lexington which is 100 miles west of the trouble, and on a high limestone dome - good surface drainage and underground caves. Plus my daughter in Lexington would tell me if they had problems. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - Here in New Hampshire we have different seasons than the USA. Winter starts in earnest in late December and through January and February we can get 10' of snow (12' in 2015.) Winter transitions to 'sap season' in late February / early March ... |