tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners When is indeed a good question. As many of you know, we were making it up as it came and there was no clear launch date. 1976 is the short answer, and pops gets a star. As our intentional community sought a common enterprise so that no one had t... | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - good memory. I’m working on a response for this forum. Listening Room was a very early dealer who remained a very strong supporter for a long time. BTW: Don Hoatson’s grandson, who grew up intertwined with The Listening Room is continuing t... | |
| Thiel Owners Thiel's US distribution began in the mid-Atlantic whereas VS on the West Coast. | |
| Thiel Owners tomic - that trip was not in my time. I have read Dick's article(s) that likely resulted from such a trip. I did know about Dick's visit to the Thiel factory. I knew Dick from Havens and Hardesty when they were one of our best and favorite dealers... | |
| Thiel Owners These sketches I’ve written in this forum over these past years serve as remembrances and motivations to resurrect and stitch these events together in my memory. I believe a memoir would be valid, not just for fans of Thiel loudspeakers, but as a ... | |
| Thiel Owners I know we’ve explored some of this territory before. But I hope it’s worth repeating, especially for those who may not have read all of our 220 pages. Ever wonder what Amberwood is anyhow? And its brother Morado? As time went by, Thiel wanted a s... | |
| Thiel Owners I've never heard better. |