tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners sdl - knowledge is lovely stuff, but never enough. At 72, some seeps in. I have used my 2.2s as my main playback tools for my whole professional life. I love them, but they will get better, similar to the improvements in beetlemania's 2.4 upgrade.... | |
| Thiel Owners solobone - I'm interested in your comparative evaluation against whatever else you use, as well as the Maestro rank in SW's line-up. | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - I suppose my experience might have some instructive value. Note that my approach is not that of a hobbyist, but that of an experimental observer. My choices must approach the ideal, including the assumptions, general practice and choices ... | |
| Thiel Owners sdl4 - The 2.2s are quite good, aren't they? And they're highly upgradable with better XO components and related goodies - when the time comes. Regarding cable, I have rotated a dozen or so interconnects and speaker cables through my setup over th... | |
| Thiel Owners 1000 pair. Note these numbers are informal, compiled from Rob and highest observed serial numbers. They cross-check pretty well with other data streams and I update them with new information. | |
| Thiel Owners FWIW - there about 1000 pair of 7s and 2500 pair of 7.2s, compared with 3000 pair of 3.6s. | |
| Thiel Owners Tony - what model do you have? | |
| Thiel Owners jon - you’re in good company. Most engineers align with Dr. Toole in claiming phase coherence doesn’t matter. That opinion is based on observation of double-blind testing. Note that Jim Thiel began his audio journey as one strongly in the camp of ... | |
| Thiel Owners Adding to unsound’s comment - if one amp does drive your small room, stereo mode "sees" twice the impedance of bridged mode. This class A/B amp will have less distortion and sound better in stereo mode. I suggest a direct comparison and tell us wh... | |
| Thiel Owners At Coherent Source Service, they were effortless and pure. Rob had a great amp driving them, but I don't remember what it was. The flat-front drivers of the original 7 address a real problem of cone drivers. The sound of the upper driver falls int... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I suppose an 'ultimate' solution would have nothing in front of the drivers, except possibly a phase plug at the apex of the tweeter. The bare baffle then needs propagation control. We used splatter paint and fabric on baffle (in my time) t... | |
| Thiel Owners Thoft - to augment unsound’s point - an aspect to consider is voltage sensitivity of a speaker in a room. I like that you can listen at 3/4 volume setting. Many preamp designs lose performance as the volume setting decreases. Often the criticism t... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - your information is correct. As a company we aimed our products at living-room listeners. Thus the relatively high cost of our enclosures. We assumed grilles would be in place for listening. Over the years, our fabrics became more sheer and... | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - any answer to your question of amp / speaker / room adequacy is by nature incomplete, often in danger of mucking things up more than clarifying them. The equation is very complex. Many combinations work OK, and the pursuit of "better" perf... | |
| Thiel Owners James - a thought from Thiel history for you. I take interest in how brands associate with other brands. Partly in play is dealer synergy - dealers tend to carry brands that go well together. Sometimes designers align with other designers for shar... |