tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners JA - I figured out the WAMM part, but jumped to the WATT because I had a little experience with it, but not the WAMM. Have you ever heard a setup? | |
| Thiel Owners petaluman - I can't be of much practical help other than referring you to Rob Gillum at Coherent Source Service. If the 03a schematic exists, he would have it. There is an aftermarket op-amp EQ called the 'golden flute' in a brass tube. Here's a l... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - I don’t know what to say! That is quite a kludge. The WAMM became a pinnacle of audiophile extravaganza. It (Wilson Audio Modular Monitor) launched an enterprise that audio history will be chewing on for a long time. My personal perspective ... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - please provide a link. I don't see it on YouTube. | |
| Thiel Owners beetlemania - these tweaks have accumulated over the few years we've been working on these upgrades together. The 2.4 is in a relatively good position among its peers, with its 2 crossovers at distnace from each other and from the woofer. Also, th... | |
| Thiel Owners @improvedsound - what a lovely playback system you have! I am honored to have Thiel speakers in such sophisticated company. I'm not sure how much knowledge there is about Antelope and Merging in the American hi-fi marketplace. I love them from the... | |
| Thiel Owners thieliste - I don't think so. The only components of real concern are the electrolytic caps. Thiel used high-performance, high-temperature, long-life Ecaps with a normal use horizon of 40 years. 'Normal' is a slippery target, but Rob has said the ... | |
| Thiel Owners jon_5912 - I wholeheartedly agree. Jim not only was a master of his design craft, he applied tons of time to evaluating each component to identify where costs could be shaved without sacrificing performance. His performance / cost ratio was amazin... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello all - in response to some questions from some of you who are upgrading your crossovers, I’d like to post some of my reflections. I have uploaded a CAD drawing of my modular outboard crossover cabinet to my virtual system. That drawing is emp... | |
| Thiel Owners @improvedsound - PM sent. | |
| Thiel Owners improvedsound - that's a nice piece of work you have done. You capture the Thiel Essence with the sloped, sculpted contours and the elegance of the base. will post some of what I have learned on this journey through my own experiments and coachin... | |
| Thiel Owners sdl4 - TPC was normally called Electrolytic Tough Pitch (copper), which is motor / magnet wire. The others are more refined in their impurity, crystal and surface parameters. There is a case to be made that ETP is good enough as long as the other ... | |
| Thiel Owners I have learned that the speaker cable in Thiel’s listening room was Kimber Type 88. Let’s grant that Jim, et al, judged that to be his best choice along with his Krell FPB600 and as I remember a Sonic Frontiers preamp. Whatever the gear was, it c... | |
| Thiel Owners roxy - I actually don’t know the name. It was his prototype he brought to CES, possibly around 1980. We used it in our show system and took some flack because the cable cost more than our speakers and power amp combined. Seems like it was a woven ... | |
| Thiel Owners I have some samples of Iconoclast to get into my works. They use similar principles to those Kimber from the 80s (don't remember the name) that were woven, flat, and cost $1K/pair-foot. They were mind blowing. I'm looking forward to the Iconoclast... |