tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| 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, ... | |
| 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... |