tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| 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 ... |