tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners All - I am searching for a pair of Thiel CS3.5s for Bill Thalmann of Music Technology to use for listening to equalizer upgrades. His shop is located in Springfield, east-central Virginia. Prefer working condition, any physical condition. Borrow, ... | |
| Thiel Owners jazzman7 - I'm eager to hear your considerations, especially your critique / assessment of the Benchmark vs CODA. | |
| Thiel Owners jeroboam - for the record, your 2.4s were made in Lexington with masonite point to point XO boards with American / European passive parts, and best-of-form wire. I and others consider them to be better than the later units with Chinese XOs and wir... | |
| Thiel Owners jeroboam - I recently borrowed a pair of CS2.4s (#3729-3730) with post "Thiel-grade" passive parts: (Solen caps, ERSE coils, etc.) These later crossovers morphed to Chinese-made fiberglass boards with cloned parts, polyester caps, etc. that I foun... | |
| Thiel Owners Tony - I'll get VibrationAnalysis. Seems like a very direct way to get information in real time. | |
| Thiel Owners I'm one of those who hasn't really questioned spikes, since they solve the real problem of cabinet recoil slurring the tweeter output. But this isolation mechanism doesn't seem to unsolve anything - the speakers aren't free to recoil, simply deco... | |
| Thiel Owners Tony - thanks for the lead. Have you or anyone here experimented with a dense block coupled to the floor via Mortite / BlueTac, etc? | |
| Thiel Owners And the iPad app? | |
| Thiel Owners Tony - what a beautiful system!And thank you for your isolation update. Might you tell us what app you use for vibration analysis? Was there a particular magic about 3Hz? I find this stuff fascinating. | |
| Thiel Owners Dspr - it seems to me that if there is a difference, the outriggers would be an improvement, not just different strokes. In product design, we always have to stop somewhere, and spikes in the base is where we stopped. I can see how a broader base ... | |
| Thiel Owners duramax - can you describe the Panzerholz base in some detail? | |
| Thiel Owners I am reminded of the other part of the can of worms when coupling to the floor - what the floor itself sounds like. A cello, washtub bass, etc. actually play the floor, but we don't want the speaker to play the floor. I like the idea of isolation ... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - thanks for the referral back to page 59. Seems there are always ways to make things better, if we can find and afford them. | |
| Thiel Owners dsper - I'll chime in regarding spikes and outriggers. I don't claim any esoteric knowledge, but developing the spikes was in my cabinet design wheelhouse. This story might seem happenstance, but that's how a lot of high performance audio actually... | |
| Thiel Owners tweak - there's something there, but there's also something to be noted when an idea doesn't rise to the top as time goes by. In the late 90s, I made cabinets for Shanhinian. One of those models used a resistive bass loading developed in Germany f... |