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| Thiel Owners dsper - among my blue-sky imaginings for the CS5, you picked the one that is actually feasible. Bi-wiring is not only feasible, but easily reversible if desired. And it's quite simple; the wires from each circuit go all the way to the single bindi... | |
| Thiel Owners Dspr - I’ll jump in and ask for any and all detail you might develop around this exploration. The ’come alive’ characteristic is something of considerable note in Thiel’s history. After "New Thiel" bought the company in 2013, long-time industry su... | |
| Thiel Owners I’m not sure about your shim question. I have added shims to both drivers to optimize how the Ultrasuede on 1/8" felt works. Those shims are about 2mm = 1/10" thick. But they are under all drivers, so they don’t change relative driver arrival time... | |
| Thiel Owners I have emailed Rob. What little I know goes back about a month. He is swamped with repair work and seems to ignore anything that is not directly billable work related. Same story goes for me too. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob Gillum may know. If so please post here. | |
| 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... |