tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners sdl4 - distortion profiles are intriguing. More generally various forms of aural masking are intriguing. The aural cortex does somersaults to create the mental image we call ’hearing’. The entire chain from live event to listened experience is con... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - No retail space in the cards. Open studio space still a couple of dim possibilities. Workspace is materializing a little at a time. | |
| Thiel Owners In small bites. Jim chose the big Krell FPB600. Other muscle amps no doubt 'outperform' the AHB-2. I like the 'grunt' of my bridged Classé DR9s (1100 watts / 2ohms.) Bill Thalmann is presently hot-rodding them. And Nelson Pass is a hero of mine. S... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - what do you consider the low impedance limit of the AHB-2? | |
| Thiel Owners tmsrdg - yes sir! sdl4 - remember, I’m an electronics layman 1. Yes, an AHB-2 should drive your 2.2s. Medium-size and real-world are vague and subjective terms, but here’s why I say yes. The (clipping) protection circuitry is so fast and sophist... | |
| Thiel Owners Jeff - you may be in for a big treat! If your woofers are indeed mis-wired, that wreaks havoc with the phase coherency of the whole system. The most certain way to get it right is to get a 6 volt battery (lantern) or 9 volt is OK for woofer with a... | |
| Thiel Owners I recommend getting the Benchmark AHB-2 into your auditioning mix if you can. Once I latched on to its clean, quiet capability, all the way to 1/2 ohm load, I have gotten hooked. Just sayin' | |
| Thiel Owners You are correct - I didn't cross-check my rusty memory. The CS3.5 bass in its enclosure is 'critically damped' Q.5 for no bass hump, which some critics consider 'dry' or over-damped. Also my apologies for my final statement of 'excellent in every... | |
| Thiel Owners @petaluman - the 03a was a sealed box design which produces a 12dB/octave bass rolloff. I think the tuning was .707 Q which Jim considered critically (properly) damped and some call overdamped. I don’t remember the unequalized -3dB point, but a fi... | |
| Thiel Owners big_greg -I agree with Cascadesphil that Thiel’s can be more sensitive to input signal than most brands. In my opinion, that has more to do with their coherence allowing the ear-brain more scrutiny. But that discussion is beyond the scope of this ... | |
| Thiel speaker model range @kingloff - I suggest you ask this question at the Audiogon Thiel Owners’ Forum and you’ll get a thorough answer. | |
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| Thiel Owners DIY is different than manufacturing. From 1983 / CS3 onward, all our film caps were custom with a target and a tolerance window, not necessarily symmetrical. Our commitment quantities were in the range of 10,000 pieces spread over the product life... | |
| Thiel Owners magnet7 - He is correct, that's 2.5% over target, which is OK. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - the pleasure is mine. Good work here, guy. magnet7 - my latest schematic (22dec'87) shows an 8uF (not 8.2) which had replaced the original 7uF spec. |