tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners prof - Amberwood and Morado were both names that we coined. As most of our 1989 CS5s were being ordered in Rosewood, and our Rosewood was true Brazilian Rosewood, and since the term 'Rosewood' had been applied for decades to another ... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - thanks for this input. It makes sense, including the context of return to a foundational idea before the company's launch - but with a life time of experience. Jim built every design on all the accumulated knowledge gained along the way.... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I know very little about this topic, only what was 'leaked' by an insider and not denied by another. But, as I said, the approach harkens back to the very beginning, before we settled on dynamic drivers in an enclosure; and it attends to o... | |
| Thiel Owners Thiel Non-Model History – products that never were - Prof – thank you for this question. Indeed we’ve covered a lot of Thiel history here over the years, but little about developments and decisions behind the curtain. This story would fill a memo... | |
| Thiel Owners Massimo - The early 3.5 tweeter feed used a 6.5uF feed cap. It was tweaked in 1987 to 8uF, which is what you want. Only buy now if you need it. I will have a much better replacement soon. The 3.5 mid and tweeter are front-burner projects. We are ... | |
| Thiel Owners Marqmike- PM sent | |
| Thiel Owners beetlemania - Biwire is a special case. There are theoretical and empirical advantages. I've gotten good results with internally-biwired cable (in the same jacket). Problems arise with separate runs that the speaker designer can't control. An ind... | |
| Thiel Owners beetlemania - I’m brewing the tea we started those several years ago. It’s getting richer and stronger. Among the many lessons learned were real developments in wire and cable. You and I both like Cardas; very well conceived and executed desi... | |
| Thiel Owners gmosley - Room placement is an art of its own. This forum can guide you to literature / information on that subject. Thiel products are wide-dispersion transducers, so try to keep them away from side walls or treat the walls more so than with many... | |
| Thiel Owners thieleste - I concur with vair68robert - Cardas is a good, albeit expensive, solution. Background in brief: Thiel discovered its 18-2 x tight twist in teflon via aerospace, and solved otherwise insurmountable problems developing the 1978 model 03... | |
| Thiel Owners ekohn00 No schedules yet. But I can tell you that the SCS4 has been our development workhorse for over a year and therefore will be first in line, including re-balancing for stand-mount use, plus our own stand that can accommodate outboard cr... | |
| Thiel Owners gmosley - first pass is to try Rob @ Coherent Source Service. Next pass is to know that a group of us are working on upgrade packages of parts and implementations for existing classic Thiel products. The CS3.5 is on the A list. New grilles will b... | |
| Thiel Owners Devin - Thiel crossover schematics state the max tolerance of each cap. Some are 5%, some 10%. Among the strategies, I prefer to try for close to equal values when splitting. I've learned end-reversal via trials. E-caps are fundamentally symmetric... | |
| Thiel Owners devin - Replacing like with like components is certainly the safest. Many folks underestimate the intricate co-dependence of all the elements. Even layout changes affect the subtle outcomes. Keeping values at original levels is a good start, but v... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - our project was good both ways. Thank you for your careful and complete evaluations and reports. Even though we both think that you got seriously upgraded performance, there are actually big gains to be attained with less expenditure. One... |