tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners @beetlemania re: " Curious if you have an opinion or knowledge about how to pair "main caps" if the full capacitance is not available in a single cap. Is it best to optimize balance between caps (eg, 7+7=14) or is there some degree of leeway (eg,... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - I can recommend the SonicCap from Sonic Craft that still has the old aspect ratio. Anything Sonic Craft carries has been carefully considered and chosen. | |
| Thiel Owners Stefano - Here are some thoughts from having owned, listened to, appreciated and messed around with CS3.5s for decades. You are correct that anything you do will have sonic consequences; and also that some of those consequences will take you close... | |
| Thiel Owners Relax Beetle - let us work through the permutations with apples to apples comparisons. When the smoke settles and the fog lifts we might see some place for some PUR caps, but you're sitting pretty till that time. Spin some tunes with your wife. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle and Rob - In my conversations with DG, the CMR thing was problematic in that in some ways the PUR (CSA with thick end caps) outperformed the CMR. Dave was instrumental in pushing CC to develop the PUR+, which is a CMR with thick end caps. F... | |
| Thiel Owners Duramax - the 2.7 has been talked about informally. As the last of the True Thiel designs it is very mature and, unlike other products including the 1.6 and 3.7, XO manufacturer didn't go to China. Thiel made those in-house with traditional Thiel ... | |
| Thiel Owners Pieter - Higher voltage acts more like film-foil and sounds better. But the upper frequencies have far less power than bass, so difference is negligible. Also the 28uF is in the final station where voltage has been previously shunted to ground. Al... | |
| Thiel Owners Correction: Second paragraph, second line PUR should read CSA. CC's breakthrough of copper-alloy end caps came with the CSA series. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetlemania - good to see you. I can clarify. All these subsequent caps are way beyond the SE and I agree that dropping ’SE’ might be appropriate for these further upgrades. Jim’s Signature Edition was his late-life offering and the SA cap was the... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - thanks so much for posting Iconoclast. Lovely Sunday read. I highly recommend anyone interested in what’s going on in cable read these papers. No worries for those less mathematically inclined; all the concept engineering is clear without th... | |
| Thiel Owners The only cable I see on the BJ or Iconoclast site is the braided one. That is an extremely difficult geometry to get right. I suspect Galen has gotten it right, and it's worth a try if it's within your budget. | |
| Thiel Owners Galen knows his beans. His braided cable is quite similar to THAT ($1000/pair-foot) Kimber braided cable that opened my ears and changed my mind in the early 80s. Is Galen offering flat conductor cable? Blue Jeans accepts returns. Keep us posted. | |
| Thiel Owners barrygb54 - regarding your equalizer question - The Thiel equalizer boosts bass to match the natural roll-off particulars of its model (01, a, b, 03, a, CS3, CS3.5.) It is a single-purpose black box with no signal monitoring or upper frequen... | |
| Thiel Owners vair68robert - regarding your wire query - I'll contribute some personal observations. As Thiel's manufacturing director for the first 20 years, then as a purist recordist, and now in my product redevelopment/refinement undertaking, I have perhaps... | |
| Thiel Owners orchardsound - don’t take it personally - he can be hard to get. |