tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners sdl4 - Thank you for your comparative brief. I doubt that I'm alone in not finding many opportunities to compare cables or much other equipment first hand. Your listening notes are helpful in forming a reference as to how these outlier brands comp... | |
| Thiel Owners TomTweak - yes we are working on the same problem When I heard my first demonstration of the technology about 3 years ago, I and all dozen of us, were dumbfounded. It took about a year with inputs from physicists, recording experts and our own exp... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - highly congested territory with more questions than answers. I have been working with turbulent / laminar flow for a couple of years now. I suggest you experiment with an open mind, since there is much more to the area than first appears. As... | |
| Thiel Owners Sutherland Felt - manufacturer. F11 absorbs audio frequencies. 1/8" is where I landed with multiple layers behind midrange driver. | |
| Thiel Owners Tony - I am not surprised you heard improvements with your wood floor. That is consistent with my long-term experience with hi fi and live sound. One problem with carpet is its frequency-variability; different frequency bands are absorbed or not i... | |
| Thiel Owners Jafant- hands-on audio is on hold till I find new workspace. I hope to hit Virginia within a month. No Classe report yet from Bill. Audio care goes slower than medical. | |
| Thiel Owners thielrules - I understand the trade-off between linear and minimum plusses and minuses. Regarding the DSP solution, that's a realm that is morphing in real time. Even at the very high end, digitization still brings its own set of potential problem... | |
| Thiel Owners thielrules - as I see it, the output of the port is a full cycle behind the output of the upper drivers, with 4th order (24dB/octave) slopes induced by the physical / mechanical interaction of the resonating port (no electronics involved.) Since I... | |
| Thiel Owners sdecker - I appreciate your feedback. Remember that I did not keep up with Thiel for its last 15 years. I agree "completely time and phase coherent" is a marketing, rather than an engineering term, so it would have come through Kathy's channel. Fa... | |
| Thiel Owners sdecker - I am not fluent enough in the art to answer much about the nuances of Thiel's phase coherence. I will point out that your "completely time and phase coherent" is not something that Thiel claimed. The applicable term of art is "minimum ph... | |
| Thiel Owners Tweak - in a first order alignment, neither driver rotates more than 90° phase shift, and the overlapping drivers are in opposite directions - they sum to zero. But that's only if each driver, in its enclosure rolls off at 6dB / octave. All that '... | |
| Thiel Owners Guys - I'll have some things to say about Thiel's take on positioning.Meanwhile, is there a physicist or other knowledgeable person here to address sdecker's query about 'interesting' bass alignment? It's important, and veiled in obscurity, and re... | |
| Thiel Owners gs5556- yes the passive screws lock the radiator to the baffle, and must be tight. And yes, they do come loose with vibration. You might try some removable Locktite, etc. or snug them every month or curse them, but that probably won't help. | |
| Thiel Owners TomTweak - these speakers seem chock full of exotic solutions. Have they been submitted for review, or do you have any white papers or third-party commentary? | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - the new ClarityCap "purity and purity plus" caps do not yet exist. You may PM me regarding additional details, but don't look for them in the marketplace in 2021. |