tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners unsound - I don't know how leaky / resistive enclosures would affect time response. My hunch is that the 2nd order closed box response would hold true while acting like a larger enclosure which of course throws off all the Thiele/Small paramater m... | |
| Thiel Owners audiotweak - no we didn’t explore resistively vented enclosures. However, we did notice that leaky cabinets altered the bass response, acting like larger cabinets, and did muse how wonderful it would be to get a larger-acting enclosure via leaking... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - indeed an equalizer opens myriad possibilities. Bill would have the knowledge to orchestrate an attenuation scheme; he would also have the chops to orchestrate alternative power for the EQ. A large part of the cost and limitation of any ... | |
| Thiel Owners brettmcee - from the earliest time, we noted that Thiel customers seemed to play by different rules than much of the industry. We chalked that up to Thiel's objective, neutral, no-nonsense approach to our products and our business. We also noted t... | |
| Thiel Owners JAFant and all. I also want to express my appreciation for this thread and all of you who contribute your thoughts, knowledge and inputs here and behind the curtain. Without you I would not have imagined this slowly emerging Thiel Renaissance vent... | |
| Thiel Owners I am remembering that BM uses 4 chips per channel - from their website: "Four balanced 32-bit D/A converters are summed together to create each balanced analog output. This 4:1 summation provides a 6 dB noise reduction, and gives the DAC3 indust... | |
| Thiel Owners I approached Benchmark about audiophile upgrades such as this opportunity and/or a higher power AHB-2 or higher-end caps, etc. John Siau is convinced that the present level of performance is optimized. I've been told there is not a DAC4 in the wor... | |
| Thiel Owners Thank you all for your thoughts on DACs. I've read some reviews on your selections and they sound like very solid buys. This helps me put things in perspective. I'll be using the Benchmark DAC3-B for my and my collaborators' work, but learning who... | |
| Thiel Owners CT and Greg - Keep us posted on the DACs. I personally would love to learn how you all view the Benchmark DAC3. It is in widespread use in the professional world and I wonder about opinions of how it compares to the top of the hi-fi world. Any com... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Guys. I claim no knowledge of silver interconnects, but would like to pass on some relevant Thiel experience. During the development of the 3.7, Jim and company compared all the potential wires and configurations for internal hookup. They settl... | |
| Thiel Owners yyz - Bill didn't actually make a very firm recommendation. He said that this unit, the SCD-1 has a thermal dissipation problem, which he elevated to a design flaw that shortens its life. He acknowledged that most audiophiles leave their gear up 2... | |
| Thiel Owners All - thanks for the input and advice. I'll be reading and learning and hope to purchase something when I land in a new studio space. You'll be the first to know. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - Bill says it’s an endemic problem, they all succomb sooner or later depending on how much uptime they’ve had. He says mine looks like it may have been powered-up for long spells which develops more heat. Some of the surface-mount componen... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the leads. I'm seriously considering the Benchmark DAC3B for freestanding conversion driving their HPA4 to get the headphone amp in the analog preamp chassis. So, I'm shopping for a CD/SACD transport only. | |
| Thiel Owners All - I just got word from Bill Thalmann at Music Technology that the SACD section of Thiel's SCD-1 is not economically repairable. I am abandoning the machine at Bill's place in Virginia. Anyone interested in it for any use may contact him. Now, ... |