tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Hello Prof, good to see you. The Original Series was indeed sequential, 01, 02, 03, 04 with advances marked in small letters. The 01(01a, 01b) was Thiel's first marketed product. There are some still out there and Rob says they have a loyal follo... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - thanks for the tip. I won't be pursuing it. Bill Thalmann tuned up the old Thiel SCD-1 which had been previously upgraded. It's quite a piece of gear. The SACD head was not salvageable, but I have very little SACD hard media. I'm beginning my... | |
| Thiel Owners jonandfamily - we look forward to your report. Here's some additional back-story about that soft dome. We developed that UltraTweeter for the CS5 in 1988. It had all of Jim's advanced techniques, and exceeded our expectations. The CS5 had woven l... | |
| Thiel Owners It's no accident that the 1.5 hung out on Stereophile's Class A (limited bass) ranking for 5 or so years. I used it for the past 7 years at our small village live performance venue to startlingly good results and reviews. I used it with a Thiel SS... | |
| Thiel Owners In the eventual realm, I am working with ScanSpeak (Vifa) on a 'new' tweeter in that motor frame. My target diaphragm has the potential of greater specific stiffness than aluminum without the ringing and without the high expense of carbon. Work in... | |
| Thiel Owners I second jonandfamily's request for direct experience with the soft dome for the Thiel UltraTweeter. | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert - what a mess. It sounds like Nashville Thiel may not have had final product testing, because your value drifts would have failed your finished speakers. We took quality assurance very seriously. There are many approaches - our meth... | |
| Thiel Owners Hey prof - thanks for the Art Dudley reference. Time marches on. Even though we kept arm's length from our reviewers, I remember them all fondly. Critical review was a crucially important part of Thiel's very existence. Art Dudley, Wes Phillips an... | |
| Thiel Owners duramax747 - good score! My forensic observation reveals that crossover production for various models was taken to China/FST and that early FST crossovers had weaknesses and improved over time. However, it seems that FST XOs used MPT/polyester ca... | |
| Thiel Owners dmac67 - regarding those 3.6s As you probably know, Thiel products were engineered down to the gnat hair scale. The drivers were massaged by their crossover circuitry for physical roll-in and roll-out of 6dB/octave with the midrange controlled ov... | |
| Thiel Owners Tip - 2/3 of the weight is in the bottom half, so laying it down onto its back (onto pads so you can re-lift it) becomes a more manageable 50# more or less. Just a thought. | |
| Thiel Owners abmeyer - the CS7 and 7.2 can be differentiated by their midrange driver. The original 7 has a flat polystyrene driver, whereas the 7.2 has a shallow anodized aluminum cone. | |
| Thiel Owners Lenny - your LFE hookup may have caused the failure. It is also possible that you just blew a fuse. Look around and see what you find. We have not located those schematics after New Thiel moved to Nashville. As background, there are two function... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - "There is something to be said about staying focused on One’s strong suit in Audio." There was a turning point in the early 90s where we could have concentrated more on our home turf of high performance / accessibly priced stereo . . . o... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - budgets are fascinating things. At Thiel, we never entertained trying to satisfy someone who had $six figures to spend. We tried for a performance plateau that fit ourselves and our projections of our imagined customers. There are real impro... |