tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners A Renaissance 3.5 would require all new drivers. The extant woofers are bulletproof and decent, but lack the sophistication of later designs. They are a 1985 solution. The replacement midrange needs to be a full range driver, which is findable, we... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - points well taken. Thanks for your linked reminders. And a comment here. My thought was more from the perspective of the extreme difficulty of producing so much bass with the dynamic range and extension possible with today's digital tech... | |
| Thiel Owners catalysis - I second your motion re the subs. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - a word for the record about insulation. There's quite a bit to it.Common wisdom is that wood is 'better' than glas, etc. , which I believe oversimplifies the situation considerably. The various materials act differently, so even at equal co... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I like seeing you think outside the lines. Indeed that coax is a work of art that should find additional uses. To add some perspective, let me summarize Jim’s design process.•The drivers are developed against their optimum criteria.•Each... | |
| Thiel Owners The bottom line is similar - major surgery required. | |
| Thiel Owners Hello rules - I suggest that the 3.7 chamber is probably larger than the 2.7 because the 3.7 XO frequency is lower than the 2.7 judging by the larger capacitor bank at the infeed of the 2.7. Redesigning a speaker is a massive undertaking. Budget a... | |
| Thiel Owners Go guy! Just for grins, my 3.5 dream that never was is to mate the hotrodded unequalized 3.5 to a subwoofer crossed at polarity correct 2nd order low pass to the natural roll-out of the sealed 3.5 bass, which is perfectly aligned in its sealed cab... | |
| Thiel Owners slhibj - Limited knowledge and experience here. I hope that directly experienced users will comment. Although the FR and other performance and technologies of the SS 10F are appropriate, I worry about the 30 Watt power rating compared with 50 or ... | |
| Thiel Owners your 38” at 9’ is fine. | |
| Thiel Owners Coherent speakers must heed the listening position to test properly. JA knows this. His normal, small room would add too many early reflections to give readable graphs. So he chose 50” which gives false readings for coherent sources. There are oth... | |
| Thiel Owners sdecker - tilting is the less offensive solution. But the changes introduced by either tilting or lifting are very small and either provides better performance than listening at the 'wrong' window. The coherence puzzle has its requirements, and Ji... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, the butcher block will work. But remember that the bass will shelve down at 200Hz to lose a little weight as you raise the woofer up from its design height from the floor. | |
| Thiel Owners Dhoff - I'll add some context to your location question. Mostly, the spot you choose is up to you. You keep track of locating the speaker in your space and dimensions are handy for doing that. In the background, is that the issues in play are rath... | |
| Thiel Owners Hed - the EQ itself is not the problem; the problem is that producing that much bass down to 40 or 20 Hz takes lots of muscle. No accident that subwoofers sport kilowatt amps! The eq presents a benign, non-reactive amp load which is easier to driv... |