tomthiel
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| 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. | |
| Thiel Owners sdl4 - thanks for the tip; I hadn't seen them in the video. Cardas is a finalist in my hookup wire trials for Renaissance Upgrades. I'll be reporting in a couple of weeks. | |
| Thiel Owners ydjames - I had seen the video before your notice, and didn't see the 3.7s. But, George Cardas is said to have proclaimed the CS3.7 to be the best sound he ever heard at a show when it was introduced. | |
| Thiel Owners prof - black paint is typically carbon pigment, which is light-weight as pigments go. The issue would be added mass proportional to the extant moving mass. I suspect that in a woofer or midrange, the added mass would be functionally inconsequenti... | |
| Thiel Owners jon - sending you a PM | |
| Thiel Owners hifi28 - good memory, with of course, a back-story for fun. The crossover modification is at SN4901, May 1987, two years in. I don’t remember the exact change - I have only the revised layout from which I have derived the schematic. But I do reme... | |
| Thiel Owners I don't like the bright drivers either. Since they are anodized, any color would have been possible. My choice would have been charcoal to dark bronze with bronze hardware instead of gold. Maybe next time around . . . | |
| Thiel Owners hey prof - who remembers what’s been asked and answered? We approached the speakers as part of the living / musc room; thus the veneer, hidden cable entries and grilles. All the later products used the grille frame and fabric as part of the desig... |