tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Mdiaz - you are not alone. "Brightness" seems to be Thiel’s Achilles Heel. And saying it isn’t so can bring ire from non-believers. Critical consensus places Thiel as quite flat in response, without the common high-frequency droop, and Jim was ada... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - yes I have and yes I would like to. I believe Thiel Audio represents a brief place in time when small-scale upstart enterprises were possible and appreciated. I have been collecting material and hope someday to have the time to pursue it. I'... | |
| Thiel Owners bonedog - in speakers white is plus. The other may be tan, which is minus. I recommend you test with a battery: D cell or 6v lantern. Momentary contact only. Plus makes the driver move forward. You can see the woofer and feel the tweeter. | |
| Thiel Owners Sorry I missed your humor. Let's call it a CS4. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - I'm not sure how much of that is correct - coming from different sources over time. I said mechanical crossover, but was enlightened to the contrary. Also the carbon diaphragm idea was countered by machined aluminum / beryllium alloy. And... | |
| Thiel Owners I was told that its coax would have had smaller drivers than the 3.7, suitable for crossing to smaller diameter lower midranges such as in the model 7; and would have trickled down to his 2.7 instead of the 3.7 coax. | |
| Thiel Owners Yea - you get what you get, and it gets better. Burn-in is relevant to reviewers to assess what a real listener will live with over time. I would love to hear if you find any measurable differences between fresh and burned in. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - thanks for your response. Keep it coming. First, please let me explain my choice of words. By ’more accurate’ I mean adhering to a flat frequency and phase response curve. By ’more mature’ I mean embodying next-level technologies such as... | |
| Thiel Owners From a historical perspective the 3.5 > 3.6 transition is a watershed. The 3.5 has the more "correct" sealed box bass response. The model 2 was invented to implement the less expensive reflex bass. That introduces phase / time lag at the bottom... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding driver wiring: there is a simple trick if you have a multimeter. Get access to the driver terminals, feed a signal to the speaker. Measure the AC voltages at the terminals. The woofer should be the highest, midrange much less and tweeter... | |
| Thiel Owners OK, not petty. I'll look into it. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - thank you very much for your links to PS reviews. I will certainly wait until I read reviews on their upcoming PerfectWave SACD player. Furthermore, I have now read John Atkinson's technical review in AudioScience of the Stellar GainCell... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant - I bought the SCD-1 because it is an iconic product, it had been Thiel Audio's, and it had been upgraded. The few discs I heard on it were wonderous. I'll keep it until I get PS Audio's new PerfectWave player early 2021 and ascertain it do... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - the rubber pads were to add mass to lower the resonance frequency. Turned out that the center plugs did a better job of that. There were also some motor improvements. That's when Jim was getting his legs with FEA for motor geometry and a... | |
| Thiel Owners And he used the Goertz flat wire, which has the lowest characteristic impedance, which is a requirement for very low impedance speaker loads. |