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