tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Cables are indeed fascinating, and their interactions with sources and load are beyond my understanding. And a lot of them don't work well with Thiel speakers. For the record - much of my approach to this playback thing holds cost and cost effecti... | |
| Thiel Owners big_greg - I’d like to address your brightness problem. It is odd that the Thiels alone are bright among good company. It seems reasonable to assume a speaker problem. I don’t know the 2.3s, but hear that the original tweeter could be heard as ’st... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - that self-surround does break down over time. At the time we were trying to minimize the standing wave reflections and non-linearities between the cone and surround as well as ultraviolet deterioration of soft plastics. It worked well wh... | |
| Thiel Owners bobschliff - email Rob Gillum at Coherent Source Service. He knows. | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, of course. That circuitry is already extant in the eq. There is only 6dB of boost at 40Hz vs 12dB @ 20Hz. Tomorrow I'll run today's trials at 40Hz vs straight wire. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - and it is real music from really talented musicians. | |
| Thiel Owners It's not that Jim didn't know about CDs dynamic peaks, it's more like he was trying to cope to keep the equalized bass viable. That woofer was the first driver with his magnetic shorting rings for a more stable magnetic field and it had a huge ove... | |
| Thiel Owners sdl4 - unsound has a good handle on the factors. But there are even more complexities. Jim did a lot of work on that balancing act including the unusually low reactance of his early bass tunings. The phase angles are quite low and at higher impeda... | |
| Thiel Owners sdl4 - you are correct about bridged amps 'seeing' half the load impedance of a stereo amp. That said, the 2.2 is a fairly benign load, especially as Thiels go. I recommend you compare your PS to the AHB if you can. I was gobsmacked by the differ... | |
| Thiel Owners @sdl4 - circling back to your inquiry about driving 2.2s with a single stereo AHB-2. I answered yes you could. But that answer is close to dangerous advice. Granting that it all depends on room size and loudness levels, one amp could easily run ou... | |
| Thiel Owners CS5 electrolytic crossover caps. Whoever spotted them was correct, despite the promo stating 'all film caps'. There a few, always shunts to common and always bypassed by the yellow 1uF styrene/ tin foil cap. There is also an iron core inductor in ... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding protection: I learned that the flickering lights are merely warnings, not actual activation. That’s why ’it’ sounds so transparent - it’s not actually going into protection. If protection is activated, a restart is required. That's happ... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound - thank you again. I hear you and am eager to hear about other options. I came to Benchmark via recommendations from high-end recording folks, tried it and like it. I can't explain how or why it outperforms its expectations. I did connec... | |
| Thiel Owners Here's the AudioScience Review | |
| Thiel Owners usound - Thank you for your thoughts. I share your concern about the power ratings, especially into low impedance loads like the (maddening) Thiels. To learn more about the discrepancy between the AHB-2 non double-down performance vs. my intensive... |