tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners stspur - I second what Beetle says, and I'll add my personal perspective. I haven't lived with 3.6s, but I picked up a pair, thanks to this forum, which I measured and listened to and as mentioned was thoroughly impressed. Regarding upgrade in gen... | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - most of my Lexington time was on Georgetown Road, where we started Thiel Audio, around the corner from the Kentucky Horse Park, where I rode my bike nearly every decent day. Secretariat was exemplary of his Bold Ruler line in being interac... | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - nice to see you. I picked up a pair of 3.6s last year and listened, and said wow. Then I measured it and said wow. Then I looked at the crossover and said wow. The 3.6 in 1992 followed the 1990 2.2. For the 3.6, Jim had delved into finite e... | |
| Thiel Owners JAFant - you asked about future models in the queue. I have concentrated my efforts on the 2.2. Next I will address the 3/ 3.5. My priorities include rescuing models in danger of obsolescence, and the 3/ 3.5 are geriatric. It will be a big challen... | |
| Thiel Owners Jon - the house photo you shared is in Georgetown proper. Our farm was (and still is) halfway between Lexington and Georgetown where they subdivided the farms into 10 acre farmlets around 1900. The farm victorian was built in 1903 and was quite de... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom Tweak - these leads are new to me, and fascinating. They are working with ideas like mine, mine being those of an interested, intuitive amateur. So, what can you tell us about your 'energy room'? Sounds fascinating.Tom T | |
| Thiel Owners One interesting aspect of external crossovers, is that so many aspects in the cabinet are devoted to vibration management. Gluing the parts to the board impinges on thermal stability, but if left unglued, they rattle and buzz and introduce microph... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - problem is I don’t drink coffee. Proper number is -0003 is the reference A. Good catch. How’s the coffee?There are plenty of good reasons for an external XO. But it is tweaky, difficult and would put off many people. In the case of the 2.... | |
| Thiel Owners Thiel is considered by many to be a small signal transducer. It works best on vocal and/or small ensemble work. I agree and chalk that up to broad range requirements for overlapping drivers. OK, fair enough.I have been dreaming in the way-back mac... | |
| Thiel Owners Guys - I would like to provide a report of general status and recent work. As many of you know, I am deeply immersed in redevelopment work. That has led to many rabbit holes, each of those leading to its own warren. The possibilities are limitless... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - you have stirred the soup. It's still cooking . . . | |
| Thiel Owners Blue - sometimes the least expensive route is to repair yours. | |
| Thiel Owners Indeed carbon rocks. And I salute Richard Vandersteen all around, and his implementation of carbon on a balsa core in particular. Jim used aluminum on a styrene core - a poor man's implementation of the same concept. And going back to the 2.2 woof... | |
| Thiel Owners Good analogy. And in the new-goods retail market through retailers, the raw component costs are multiplied by at least 5. So every penny counts. You guys as end users are in a different paradigm.Erik - what is your target frequency response, eithe... | |
| Thiel Owners Masi - Rob does do the ferrofluid 3.6 tweeter. Rob has rebuild kits. That tweeter was entirely custom and not replaceable. |