tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners mrfizziks - I would have to do a web search. Rob would know. BTW, Rob is working toward getting help to keep up with business. If necessary, we could plug in a CS1 woofer, which is conceptually and practically the same driver with some Thiel refin... | |
| Thiel Owners @goldbehen - I’ll go so you don’t get left in the dust. It can pile up quickly here. The 3.5s, like all Thiel speakers are designed to be wide-dispersion transducers. So their off-axis environment is more critical than many other designs. They sh... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - first a disclaimer. I have no real experience with the WATT or any other Wilson products, beyond interested observation. My connection is primarily one of curiosity. The WATT has been considered an audiophile reference from its beginning,... | |
| Thiel Owners mrfizziks - Rob at CSS is swamped. Best approach is thru his website. Keep trying. Your tweeters are Polydax HD130x105D34E and your woofers are Credence 6C 16PP1. | |
| Thiel CS2 @sjbellers - adding to unsound's post, your "Thiel CS3s" are getting upgrade attention in parallel with the CS3.5. The Audiogon Thiel Owners' Forum may be of service to you. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - your audio interest is immense! I, on the other hand, have very little experience outside the realm of Thiel. I believe that some day you might become a candidate for an enhanced CS2.4. | |
| Thiel Owners beetle - I think their hall ambience retrieval is real rather than an artifact. Consider that a large portion of speakers have the 100Hz bump, but don't 'hear' the hall. I suspect that Wilson's heroically quiet enclosures along with their ultra hi... |