tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Real - I for one am interested in your comparison of your Krell vs the BHK. | |
| Thiel Owners A lot depends on the particulars and personality of the company. I think Vandersteen and Wilson have survived with a son taking the reins. Some companies survive via economic viability, but even there look at B&W among others who struggle to m... | |
| Thiel Owners And another one bites the dust. And another one rises before us. Sing that song loud and clear. Happy New Year. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - how did that Halcro amp weather the ages? Its circuit topology seems reminiscent of the BM AHB-2 in layman's descriptive terms. Indeed specs don't tell the whole story and harmonic distortion can be a particularly beast since low / even h... | |
| Thiel Owners Thielrules - thank you for posting that amp list. There is a fairly widespread belief among audio pros that audiophiles prefer distortion to provide qualities they call "fullness, richness, lushness, warmth", etc. I must confess that it took me qu... | |
| Thiel Owners JM and all - for a dose of Christmas Music with a twist, tune into Dana Cunningham's Christmas Concert, Sunday night at 8PM eastern via her website danacunningham.com It's my first livestream event and I'll be recording it in high resolution audi... | |
| Thiel Owners Todd - sorry, I meant B. I find the SS solution to be a seamless integration between sub-bass and upper frequencies. There is also a little of A in there: It just sounds like bass, not like a subwoofer and therefore doesn't draw attention to itsel... | |
| Thiel Owners Todd - the PXO creates an actual designed crossover with the 3.7 etc for a seamless transition. I find it inaudible. Rob may have it. Or if you find any PXO, he can reconfigure for the 3.7 etc | |
| Thiel Owners Tmsrdg - my knowledge of the SI-1 Integrator is all hearsay from the same sources and reviews as you have. I might add a little more: that Jim and later operatives after his death tried unsuccessfully to develop a troubleshoot-repair operation. Ji... | |
| Thiel Owners Snbeall - I’m not very expert, but I have some experience with the SmartSub which I’m happy to share. I was involved with the early development efforts with Berger, the lead engineer at Vifa. We co-developed the Class D amp at its core in the earl... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - thanks for the B&W lead. I haven't heard a B&W since 1995. They certainly have advanced the state of the art. In Thiel history, B&W was a significant player. Being an imported product, they were at a pricing disadvantage, and havi... | |
| Thiel Owners jm - FuzzMeasure is similar to Room Equalizer Wizzard. It seems that REW has many more adherents in hi fi land. I got FM because JA used it extensively in his Stereophile graphs, and it works well for my semi-pro room optimization work in recordin... | |
| Thiel Owners JM - I'll chip in with a personal anecdote. When the Classe DR6 /DR9 setup was new, Thiel used it in demos with a pair of bridged DR9s. I still have and use those amps. The Classe replaced Threshold 800s. Thiel outgrew the Classe sonically and wen... | |
| Thiel Owners thoft - completely different, higher order, reversed polarity tweeter. I'd love to see time domain plots. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - good horses keep living and living. Your judicious explication reminds me of a general theme which our Goners might enjoy. Thiel presented a peculiar problem for many retailers, including Innovative Audio. Retailers make packages. Those ... |