tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Tom - I prefer to consider the room as a separate entity due mostly to how our aural neurology manages the inputs. Signals less than 5 to 10 milliseconds are conflated into a single onset transient. The longer that initial signal emanates, the mor... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I don't know much about particular products. What little I do know says that for braided wire to work as designed, it must stay extremely quiet internally, and that's no small task. Straightwire's Bflat (I believe) preceded Wireworld's e... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - that's the real deal. There's always plenty more to learn than most of us can absorb. That's beyond my scope, but if you dive in, I'd love to hear your summaries as time might allow.TT | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - that guy knows his wire, and consider his background at Belden. I'd love to hear his wire.He reminds me of my first aha speaker cable experience at CES around 1978. (This post repeats some earlier references, but 200+ pages deep and some new... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - It is likely that the two coils have the same inductance and simply vary in their aspect ratios - a minor difference. Speculation is risky.Using the coil wire (like yours), and not a jumper wire, is best practice. | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - I'm not an electrician, but do have experience with circuitry and ground loops. I highly recommend you fix your house grounding, not only for the amps but for safety and right functioning of all your gizmos. Electric circuits routinely ble... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - I would be the thermal culprit. I think thermal management is more important than generally believed. I am systematically addressing the mantra of shortcomings of Thiel speakers over four decades. Among those complaints is "they’re fine for ... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi guys - an update from the hotrod garage. Recently I was lent a pair of CS2.4s for experimentation. Initial auditioning was disappointing, but it turned out that one coax was dead and the other rubbing. Rob rebuilt them, and yesterday I reinstal... | |
| Thiel Owners Thiel migrated away from direct wood fastening to inserts sometime after I left. There are advantages of reliability over multiple uses. However, metal on metal under vibration will (reliably?) vibrate loose. Breakaway Locktite helps as does Morti... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - your missive runs parallel to my experience. In the case of my outboard crossovers, and mounting my internal crossovers and back-plates - I am using all nylon. Drivers need more strength so I use brass. naimfan - stripping is an issue with s... | |
| Thiel Owners Since namifan asked about screws, I'll peek into the rabbit hole with you.My EMI scans show that the steel screws are active in the driver fields. Early hypothesis is that they matter. I have replaced all screws in my working prototypes with brass... | |
| Thiel Owners naimfan - ordinary screws will work. Those Thiel screws are plated with black phosphate. Rob at Coherent Source Service should have them. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - my interest is academic. I want to know who made what changes for what purposes with what outcomes and what seems "better" for what reasons. | |
| Thiel Owners All - this might be an opportunity for me to expand on unsound’s response to dmac67 regarding the ’improved’ CS3.6s. Indeed Jim’s approach to design was to specifically control any system misbehavior in pursuit of absolute fidelity to the input si... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I get it. One of my pairs ended up in the living room of the house I'm sharing, driven by PS Audio's Sprout II from a decent CD player. They consistently delight and make me wonder at times if and why most folks would need more to enjoy mus... |