tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| 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... |