tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Jazzman - as a point of record, the 2.2 never suffered any production changes. This may be unique in Thiel's history. The drivers remained extraordinarily stable throughout its 7 year x 4000 pair run and no crossover changes were deemed necessary ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - this wire issue deserves more fleshing out. CDA101 is 99.999%CDA102 is 99.99%CDA110 is 99.9%There are other requirements for each gradeAnnealed Copper is less conductive than these grades, which are all Electrolytic Tough Pitch-at the pinnac... | |
| Thiel Owners Max - I consider Delignit to be a wonderful material and would be interested in what you know about it as a bracing material. I have had some success adding cross struts of bamboo (in the league of Delignit) to the MDF shelf braces, which keep the... | |
| Thiel Owners Max - I had never considered that Thiel's weak link was its cabinets. Let's put that idea on the back burner for now.Regarding Spruce as a cabinet material - that has merit. Spruce is an extraordinary wood, landing it as the soundboard of choice f... | |
| Thiel Owners Max - I use Delignit / panzerholtz in piano restoration work - and love it.The earliest Thiels from 1975 to 1985, up to the CS3.5 used various products. The 01 and 02 were medium density particle board. The 03 and 03a were Baltic Birch (actually t... | |
| Thiel Owners sdecker - thanks for the input. My 220-230 estimate was from Rob’s memory. I’ll replace that estimate with your 611-12 old-style 2.4s.Now, a thought about Lexington vs FST coils. It seems that one of the extenuating circumstances around taking XO ... | |
| Thiel Owners Max - what serial numbers are your straight 2.4s? | |
| Thiel Owners Max et al - #1&2 were usually kept in Thiel's music room and 3&4 at the farmhouse or insider rotation. You may very well have the earliest 2.4s out there in the world. | |
| Thiel Owners https://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/thiel/2.4.htmlThis review speaker is Morado (Machaereum acutifolium) / Bolivian Pau Ferro. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle and Duramax - I'd love to see pix or descriptions. I can supply the general MO for that time. The 2.4 was introduced in 2003, before Jim got sick. All hi-fi products were still being made in Lexington with components selected, developed and... | |
| Thiel Owners The ScanSpeak spec on those woofers and subwoofer is 4 ohms. | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - thank you as always for your comments on multi-amping the CS5. You are correct that this cure might be worse than the disease. I'll note that your "simple" solution of using a suitable amplifier is also Jim's solution. And it works well ... | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - I’ll pick up this SCS4t query. It is a regular SCS4 on a built-in stand which is acoustically non-functional. The stand provides no bass boost or any other function than to elevate the speaker. I have an SCS4 here - the final iteration of ... | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - among your short list, the Dunlavy is phase/time coherent like Vandersteens and Thiels. The others are not. brett - I don't know how many of 'us' have ventured into DSP / active, etc. "That bass affect" is present in all reflex bass alignm... | |
| Thiel Owners sdl4 - I have not used the Vovox for interconnects - just because I never felt the need. I'm happy with my Morrows. My opinion is that unshielded sounds better than shielded; so only use shielded when there is a need (evidenced by shielded soundin... |