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| Thiel Owners Tom - My pair has its serial numbers rubbed off, so I don't know if any changes were made later. Mine have the pins I designed for the CS2.2, which is a smooth 1/4" pin with a retention 0-ring seated in a nylon shoulder bushing. That bushing pulls... | |
| Thiel Owners Request for contact information - I have Thiel's original Sony SCD-1, and it needs repair. Someone here noted a tech doing this work. Can someone please re-post that lead or any leads to someone repairing and/or upgrading the SCD-1. Thank you. Tom | |
| Thiel Owners A variant of the Lincoln Effect, which I have come to use extensively, is the Background Effect. Playing music in the background, while I work, in and out of the room and while assessing technical measurements, has an interesting effect. I play th... | |
| Thiel Owners At TA I always cultivated “Lincolns” and their contribution was invaluable.others here might supply more technical explanation of XO slopes; Here’s my layman’s take, IF a system creates a proper step response, it is phase/time coherent. Jim’s seco... | |
| Thiel Owners A thought. It is asked whether phase/time really matters or if designers so inclined just pay close attention to everything, therefore producing successful products. This week's experiments might shed a little light.You know Marena. We’ve been wor... | |
| Thiel Owners 2.2 and 3.6 have same tweeter. | |
| Thiel Owners mallikh67 - Have you worked through standard troubleshooting practice? Does the bad sound persist with another speaker, or headphones? If only your 2.2s are at fault, is it in both speakers? Try to narrow the problem down to an individual problem ... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - it's hard to say. These various projects have taken on beta-partners, people who systematically build out the designs while carefully noting their listening experience as it goes. Eventually there may be all of what you list above, from adv... | |
| Thiel Owners The SCS was the coax version of the 6.5" two-way that began with the 02 in 1976, the SCS in 1984 and on through the 2, 3 and 4. One of the driving forces for the original SCS was our interplay with Toyota who built their Camry / Avalon plant up th... | |
| Thiel Owners Pete - it seems that Jim Thiel and Richard Vandersteen shared very similar approaches to their art. Jim's subwoofers also used the power amp output, and Jim's room correction was also done in the analog domain, for the reasons you stated. I love w... | |
| Thiel Owners snbeall - regarding cable theory - I am familiar with that Townshend paper and have kept up (as time and education allow) with cable development. Within the considerable snake oil in the cable corner of the market, I believe there is a lot of real... | |
| Thiel Owners Harry - good to see you. Thiel did have early exposure to Monster, I don't remember the models, but it was with their high-end offerings. I remember Audioquest bettering our Monsters and so on and so forth.I don't know whether I mentioned our sign... | |
| Thiel Owners All - progress is being made toward the schematics and closure of the Thiel legalistics. I'll announce when I can. | |
| Thiel Owners snbeall- regarding the 02 / SCS / PP series. I do consider them true Thiels to the core. Yes, they use second order slopes because they were designed with home theater considerations, etc. But, Jim's implementation used both drivers positive polar... | |
| Thiel Owners solobone - yes, there is a replacement. That "UltraTweeter" is used in the CS5, CS3.6 and CS2.2. Rob can tell you where to get (Madisound?) a direct replacement with a fiber dome rather than aluminum. Berger at Vifa designed both and likes them eq... |