tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Dan - use the 14-4. There is some disagreement around best configuration for star quad. Conventional configuration is opposites as plus and other opposites as minus. Also try adjacents as plus and other adjacents as minus. Please report back what ... | |
| Thiel Owners Naimfan - you can use double wires (star quad, etc.) and connect both runs to the same terminals. 4' from wall to tweeter is a good distance if you can listen at least 8' away from the speakers. | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - at your instigation, I’ve spent a lot of time with the 02 during this past year. It is small, shipable, simple and inexpensive. It provides a good development platform and test bed for many ideas which can be inexpensively iterated multiple... | |
| Thiel Owners Probably more than a third of those components were time correction for each the upper and lower midrange drivers. Bucket brigade analog time delay to fine-tune the arrival time. Those ubiquitous yellow 1uF styrene film x tin foil caps were develo... | |
| Thiel Owners The CS5(&I) was the exception. It was too big for that. That huge xo board slid into a pair of grooves near the back of the cabinet, abutting a rubber bumper at the top. The cabinet base with a rubber bumper was screwed up against the bottom o... | |
| Thiel Owners Input accepted. What I know for now is that this rubber-damped / no cabinet contact method performs considerably better than stock Thiel. And that putting a crossover inside a cabinet is an inherently compromised idea. Further improvements always ... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom - your hypothesis is of interest. One observation is that all Thiel speakers mount their XOs to the bottom or back near the bottom with lots of fiberglass between the XO and the drivers / moving air. Plus the sound is hard, like a driver botto... | |
| Thiel Owners naimfan - Some thoughts on the CS2.2 (where I’ve reinserted the rightful decimal point). The model 2 was a smaller-scale version of the original 3-way model 3 - less expensive for smaller rooms and moods. The model two often benefited from trickle... | |
| Thiel Owners James - about your perceived distortion. I'm guessing that a recording that is good enough to consider as a reference does not have the type of distortion you are reporting. If it emanates from one channel, swap channels. If it swaps, it's somewhe... | |
| Thiel Owners Dan - following up on the power part of your amp query. It has always fascinated me that Thiel speakers seem to bring out the worst in many amps. This weekend I interacted with a very knowledgeable long-term Thiel user who stated he had amps that ... | |
| Thiel Owners To correct the record: Rob says the 1.6 and 1.7 use the same moving system in the tweeter and the only difference is that the 1.7 has an additional bucking magnet. | |
| Thiel Owners Dan - that is quite a system you’ve got going. I have no direct experience with your prospective amp models, but note that they all look great for current delivery and the brands pass the sniff test. But you knew that. Good work.I have two general... | |
| Thiel Owners John - there's a parallel phenomenon happening in the pro world around tape recorders. A great recorder can be a holy grail for a recordist, especially one with analog vinyl as their target playback medium. Recordists post their epitome tapes for ... | |
| Thiel Owners johnhh - I concur with Scott and can add some tangentially-related personal experience. Not Sansui, but Yamaha of the same period. Our non-profit performance venue here in NH was given a Yamaha P2200 @250 w/c and the workhorse darling of its mid-7... | |
| Thiel Owners What a nicely made video of a magnificent sound system. Ken extended an open invitation to me to experience his place. But we really were in different worlds. For those of you who know Thiel's history, we were a nose-to-the-grindstone / little eng... |