tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners I think a little shot of history might be in order. Let’s look at resistors for a glimpse into Jim Thiel’s working ethos. Of huge importance to Jim was that of balanced design. He worked toward a performance plateau where all elements worked equal... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob and Erik - The 400uF electrolytic is in series feed to the midrange. Bummer. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - caps always improve via parallel smaller values. Jim never went over 100uF. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - I suspect the "don't do it" is because the spuriae introduced are evidence of non-linear behavior which can cause problems for some amplifiers.Rob - the only resistors that benefit from upping are those carrying current, which are in your... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob and Beetle - I have also gone back and forth between wire configurations. My observations are similar to both of yours, the parallel configuration seems to add dimension and space. I hear more lucid harmonic detail such as obviously double str... | |
| Thiel Owners Insider information: I've been told that Jim and Gary listened to every cap out there, along with measuring to choose the ClarityCaps. At the time the SA was top of the line. I've compared the SA to the CSA. The CSA is next league. Truly remarkable. | |
| Thiel Owners CS3 lovers - just saying that the CS3.5 is really a CS3 with more sophisticated drivers. Same concept, functionally same cabinet. Any future life we develop for the 3.5 will apply to the 3. We have a good midrange replacement candidate. A replacem... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - try me at tom thiel at sign worldpath dot net.Tom | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - I suspect that the only substantive difference between your 2.7 XOs and KYXOs is the wire. There may be small component value differences to compensate for the wire. Rob G. says all the 2.7s were built in Lex under his supervision. So your T... | |
| Thiel Owners Question: What was the outcome of the electrical drain off the driver baskets. Awhile ago someone (Thieleste?) did a comparison. All comments welcome.Background: I am working on thermal stabilization and that might interface with electrical drain... | |
| Thiel Owners I suggest checking with Rob G re spare parts . | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle and Rob - I got an answer from RG that all pre-sale (2013) CS2.7s were made in Lexington, with PtP, parts like Rob's, etc. but with standard 18 solid twist hookup wire. We think this pair was a trial at New Thiel and we're investigating whe... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - Problematic rooms and PowerPoint 1.2s seem to be made for each other. | |
| Thiel Owners Virtual system - I posted some photos of my unique setup. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - the SCSs seem fairly invisible here. My slight experience might help a little. The SCS is essentially a grown-up O2 - 6.5" ported two-way with polarity correct second order crossovers. They produce a decent step response and frequency re... |