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| Thiel Owners Tom D - the whole matter of bass is deep and sticky. I have spent considerable attention on the problem, and am still in the dark. But here are some thoughts. Put your boots on because we're going in over our heads. At Thiel we did tons of (non-m... | |
| Thiel Owners Jim - Memory develops holes at 40 years out. This morning I pulled a tweeter on a CS3 I have in storage. Yep. The tweeter cavity has a 1/4" thick back with a lag bolt to the cabinet back. (No dodging - I did it!) That isolated the tweeter, plus wa... | |
| Thiel Owners Jim - let's revisit your actual questions: Tweeter cavity - I don't remember that tweeter mounting having a back in the cavity. It is possible that the early iterations, like yours, had it and it didn't stick or that you have an aftermarket tweak... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - thanks for your comments. The entire arena fascinates me on multiple fronts. First is that "the problem" had been solved to our (Thiel's) satisfaction by 1983 with the CS3 contoured baffles that practically eliminated diffraction and baffle ... | |
| Thiel Owners JCHussey- I would like to address your CS3s. This model is the de-facto watershed that put Thiel on a solid road to success. The CS3.5 gets more respect, but it is essentially the same speaker with a better midrange driver. Taken together, the CS... | |
| Thiel Owners JAFant - what I meant to say is that the stock CS2.4 has its crossovers positioned quite optimally - more so than most Thiel models. Here's some background. Although we were aware of sonic degradation when the free-form / bird's nest development ... | |
| Thiel Owners I get it. Too bad Thiel XOs are so complex. But that's what it takes to control a driver over 7 octaves without having detrimental effects on frequency, phase and time response. One of these days I'll find the opportunity to put a Path in the cri... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - I admire your deep-end solutions. I bet they sound good! For my part, finding cost-effective upgrades that fit the general (albeit stretched) value proposition of Thiel Audio has landed me on Mills 12 watt audio resistors, quite good for $5... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - take care when considering inductor gauge change. Although there may be no actual / functional differences, the fact remains that the coil resistance (as designed) is an integral part of the circuitry. Your change will change the circuit dyn... | |
| Thiel Owners Robert - there are many details that are weighed in cost / benefit analyses relative to a company's market niche. Jim was the decider of what was worth what. I can't say for certain, but I suspect that those gold-plated bolts/screws on late Thiels... | |
| Thiel Owners My redevelopment exploration over the past few years has identified this metallic source of interference. My experiments point to disruption of electromagnetic fields to create eddy currents that react against the orderly flow of energy. In the 1... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - check. Roxy - I have pasted together a fairly valid narrative, albeit with large vaguenesses and some holes. Some of the story is recounted in Ted Green’s Strata-gee.com interview with me from around 2018; we’ve also covered some in these ... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I had not known about that Thiel blog. I don't know who might be funding that site. Someone here may be able to look behind the curtain and see. Otherwise, the person who comes to mind is Rob Gillum as an adjunct to his Coherent Source Serv... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - Don died a few years ago. His grandson Mike who grew up around the business is carrying it on with the help of Don's wife and brother. Prof - I think that's the same site that picked up the domain when New Thiel went bankrupt. Note there's n... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank you JC for the link to Thiel Audio’s incorporation docs. To correct the record, it seems that Thiel Audio Products Company didn’t incorporate until 1985. So those early borrowings and growth were done under the auspices of Conceptions Studio... |