tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners Frank - your description suggests the EQ is not working. I suggest getting a test recording. In your room, the deep bass should be big and boomy, and the woofer and midrange should visibly pump much harder than without the EQ. | |
| Thiel Owners I have commented before, but an additional comment might be in order.That is that terminology often obscures the discussion. Some of that obfuscation is purposeful, some is accidental. It may help to insert the word ’polarity’ when it fits. Polari... | |
| Thiel Owners And it may interest you that Dave was Thiel's national sales manager from the late 80s to 90s. He moved his family to Lexington to help Thiel navigate their rapid growth into compatible and excellent dealers that he knew from ARC and Magnepan. He ... | |
| Thiel Owners I want to update my statement about stereo vs bridged Benchmark AHB-2 use. I spoke with John Siau today who said they updated their software to allow current to 1 ohm at full power, with no sacrifice of noise or distortion performance. Any Thiel m... | |
| Thiel Owners 4 @ 100uF is what Jim always used. People here have recommended Mundorf's lytics. Or ask Jeff at Sonic Craft. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - I knew Tantalums from Bryston's 1980s designs, and checked them out. Not as good as our stock caps. Bryston abandoned them also.Taking the woofer XO closer to the midrange driver would not be good.Some models would benefit from moving the XO... | |
| Thiel Owners BTW: Benchmark's designer John Siau reviewed the XO schematics and specs and fed back the following:CS7.2 stereo or bridged, CS5, 3.7, 3.6, 2.4 stereo mode only. That said, I use bridged nearly exclusively without problems. Seems that class H amps... | |
| Thiel Owners My amps for comparison include an Adcom 555II, a pair of Classe DR9s bridged and not and a pair of Benchmark AHB2s bridged and not. I do not find the Adcom very musical and use it mostly to drive speakers under test. I like the Classe, but the AHB... | |
| Thiel Owners Pray tell, what is the amp? |