tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners The ESL-63 uses (if I recall correctly) a cascading time delay crossover over concentric rings of the diaphragm to create a whole diaphragm motion with all points equidistant from the listener's ear. What brilliance!"Walsh" - type drivers use bend... | |
| Thiel Owners CT - a few general thoughts here. I am aware that Richard uses the term ’pistonic drivers’ and what he means my it, and agree that it is highly desirable; but there are many designers who don’t want it. There has been considerable convergence of t... | |
| Thiel Owners jon - you're on it. When developing the CS5 cabinet I explored custom ceramic tiles for the interior, attached with a researched mastic adhesive - it worked extremely well. There were two big problems. 1: it was too heavy to ship and handle. Deale... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I’ve only heard the 3.7 and 2.7 once, when auditioning the final prototype 2.7 at the Thiel factory in 2012. We all heard what you are hearing. There’s probably more to it than the baffle. A few years and $six figures were spent optimizing ... | |
| Thiel Owners Tmsrdg - I can add a general perspective comment. The level and extent of exploration and custom development that went into passive components at Thiel was considerable. Many folks may consider Thiel's choices as strictly budget driven, but scores... | |
| Thiel Owners Thoft - I've been messing with the 3.6s for the past few months. I consider their stock components highly optimized and am therefore investigating other upgrades in priority over component upgrades. That said, there are ongoing DIY upgrades happen... | |
| Thiel Owners Jimi - I recommend restoring the CS1.2s as a very fine little speaker. I use the CS1.2 drivers in an 02 cabinet to compare components,wire and cabinet treatments. Rob at Coherent Source Service has parts. I think you'll be glad you did. | |
| Thiel Owners I can contribute a bit of Thiel historical perspective. Among all the good, great and worthy amps out there, Thiel gravitated toward a few brands, who also gravitated toward Thiel speakers for mutual product development. This thought is up to 1995... | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - Nelson designed the original GFA555, but not necessarily the other Adcoms. I think he designed all the Forte gear, but I’m not sure. He used the Thiel CS3.6 as a design load, so he would have the definitive opinion for Thiel with the model... |