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| Thiel Owners Dspr - CS5s are a tough nut to crack. Their impedance drops to 2.5 ohms at 150Hz and keeps dropping to 1.5Hz by 20Hz, and lower at 10Hz. It devastates most amps. I don't remember for sure whether the 'improved' woofers raised that impedance a litt... | |
| Thiel Owners Waveguides are attached with a 3M plastic adhesive and usually come off readily. I can't recommend any tricks. The rubber goo surround fix is good. The original goo was silicone. | |
| Thiel Owners bonedog - you have the right driver. I'm working from memory of 35 years ago and I have 2 originals here. Light gray surround matches paper cone color. 13M Thiel-8521. | |
| Thiel Owners Thieliste - I don't have 3.7s, but can speak in general to your listening angle question. I believe the biggest factor is the room. Jim designed all the floor-stranders to be fired straight ahead if the room can support that. Their cross points ar... | |
| Thiel Owners JAFant - Nothing very fancy, but chosen for neutrality and high value.I did indeed buy the Thiel Audio Sony ES SCD-1 at auction. It played a few discs beautifully and then failed. Long story shortened, I want to sell it with its upgraded internals... | |
| Thiel Owners bonedog - note that the original CS3.5 midrange does not have a foam surround, but rather a continuation of the cone paper infused with silicone. Be careful what you're using for a reference. | |
| Thiel Owners Rules - that's listening position. Peak capture might register 100dB, unless I'm driving hard to cause distress on purpose.My listening is almost entirely for data-gathering. My chair is on wheels and my spl meter is velcroed to my thigh. 2' squar... | |
| Thiel Owners dspr - Rob at Coherent Source Service could check your serial numbers for whether yours were upgraded to the "i" status. The difference was upgraded woofers and possibly an XO tweak to compensate. For the room bit, I recommend moving them away fro... | |
| Thiel Owners To clarify for those recently joining the discussion, my observations are based on an unusual room that is effectively large since the listening room has semi-porous walls within a 12Kcubic’ space, in a 30Kcubic’ building without many partitions. ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rory at Benchmark says that many customers have requested such an AHB-3. I tried my hand at it. John is adamant that the AHB-2 has enough power. Engineers can be that way. We wouldn’t be talking about this here if Thiel speakers had 4 ohm minimum ... | |
| Thiel Owners George - I agree that all amps we know, either class A or AB, act worse in many ways when bridged. I recommend you investigate this particular amp, which does indeed act as you say, but its anomalous behavior is limited to its stability into low i... | |
| Thiel Owners Yyz - yes. 3' cables are optimum if your configuration permits it. | |
| Thiel Owners ampers - I’ll chime in here. The Benchmark AHB-2 has been my go-to amp for about 2 years now. It is unique in my experience for simple authenticity. Regarding their feed-forward, John Siau has written a white paper available on the BM website. In ... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - As you say, sufficient power is an absolute requirement. I may be naive, but I'm thinking that with good used equipment available at bargain prices, education would be fruitful because many folks could actually afford good to great solut... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - what a trip indeed. Circumstances have prevented progress in ways that many here assumed or wished for. I’m not yet discouraged; and I’m stirring the pot every day. My personal interest drives me to decipher some of the mysteries of Thiel and... |