tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Tom - that reflection is real. Shielded cable has a ’sound’ due to inward reflection of propagation field effects. Unshielded sounds better when it can be used in benign circumstances. I’m reminded of Thiel’s early electronics. The 01 and 03 gene... | |
| Thiel Owners When replacing a magnetic metal with a non-magnetic material, it's important to understand the function of the part. Often a chassis acts as a Faraday Cage where the entire envelope is engineered as a whole. Sometimes there are electrical value co... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - Cardas makes heavy claims for its particular American copper mine source. I would suspend judgement based on rumors. We don't know what we don't know. I have gotten more education around wire than I ever thought possible. Verifying claim... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - I do love the R&D and do appreciate the support and interactions I get with you guys. I’m glad Rob is pleased and hope we get those Purity caps sometime soon. The new order seems to run on snail time. It is difficult and frustrating ... | |
| Thiel Owners ydjames - the breakup you describe can be caused by various things. Among them could be lose voice coil turns or other non-design-related phenomena. Let’s rejoice that the new drivers fixed the problem. Last week I had a ’sound’ in a CS1.6 woofer... | |
| Thiel Owners trickydude - I’m not apprised of brands and models, but can paint a basic picture that might be helpful. Bluntly stated, Jim Thiel’s designs had impedances that were too low, making them suitable for only robust amps rated to deliver power into a ... | |
| Thiel Owners hollowaudio - congratulations on your CS2s. First off, have you contacted Rob Gillum at Coherent Source Service? He knows everything about maintaining Thiel speakers. He may have moving systems for your speakers and/or help you test the viability ... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, I'm glad you've experiened Barkhausen noise - it is baffling on first encounter. Actually hearing effects from change of state electron spin is mind-boggling, until you grasp that the audio cortex can hear practically everything. My first exp... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom D - welcome to the rabbit hole. Electrical and electromagnetic fields are a huge issue. In my opinion this issue deserved more attention than Jim gave it. As time went on, Jim's XO position moved farther from the drivers. Note the 3.7's locati... | |
| Thiel Owners That's 1-2 dB at 20k. | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I ran the painted driver experiment; and I’ll call it a success. I used Krylon ’Fusion’ because it claims ’5X the adhesion’ (of whatever?). Its solvent cocktail includes acetone, which makes a good scrub agent.Careful. I chose dark oiled b... | |
| Thiel Owners rop45 - I found it. | |
| Thiel Owners rop45 - can you provide a link, etc. A search of Audiogon says there are no listings for Thiel CS2. Or perhaps you could describe your offering here. | |
| Thiel Owners Thank you, Beetle. I'll be including Cardas 15ga chassis wire in an upcoming comparison. Quite a puzzle. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetlemania - I'm interested in which Cardas hookup wire you used. |