tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners The tail of the PPs butts against the 8' ceiling for tweeters at 78" up. L-R distance is 4'. I would have preferred 4' out for 5'8" C-C or more, but stuff got in the way. | |
| Thiel Owners Mr. Bill- looking down on the room in bird's eye view, my floor standing speakers are 4' out from the south wall. But my PPs are not along that south wall. The "testing corner" is the south east corner. The right speaker is 3' out from the SE corn... | |
| Thiel Owners fitter468 re PowerPlanes - I have never lived with PowerPlanes, but I have and use PowerPoint 1.2s, which are the same PowerDriver 6.5"x 1" coax. Pretty special. The woofer has dual front and rear cones with a styrene filler core, and the tweeter ... | |
| Thiel Owners Oops, that response was for for unsound. From very early-on, perhaps the beginning, but at least the CS3 in 1983, Jim built zobels into the crossovers to stabilize the impedance load for amps. | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - I don't have their Zobels. These OCOS cables have been with me since about 1990 when Thiel Audio "upgraded" to more something better. I believe it was Straightwire coax prototypes with similar geometry but better wire and dielectrics. I don... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - later today (or tomorrow) I hope to directly compare some wire of interest to you. • Original OCOS / double runs• Straightwire Octave II which Steven Hill recommended as their best bang for buck cable• Morrow SP-4 copper / double runsI h... | |
| Thiel Owners Yep - the electrical aspects of the stock twisted pairs is burned into the design. If wire configuration is changed, then xo changes will be required to compensate. | |
| Thiel Owners That guy is a master. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - please explain, I don't understand the term: "set back to".T | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - yep. The ’why not’ gets slimmer once the ’single’ barrier has been broken. And your suggestion puts the user in the driver’s seat. If we’re thinking a la carte, then the extra cost of a good pair of posts becomes user selected. I am remi... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - crossing at the amp has fewer consequences than parallel. More distance is better, but not by a lot due to inverse square law of distance. Andy - I have previously addressed the single input thinggy. Thiel wanted to side-step the pitfalls... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - I am a sucker for tracking down stuff I don't understand. I think I will try taping A and A to see what happens. My interest stems from the tendency to replace a wire with a better wire and like it better. Often throwing money at a problem m... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - No, No I didn’t mean it!JA - Ray is a good idea.All - I continued my comparisons re cabling and noticed a deep bass rumble / congestion with the C arrangement: ++ and --, taped together for close parallel run. Rather than side by side, I ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob, Thiel Audio would have used such information, but Jim died in 2009. His active projects after the 3.7 were the 3.7b (Chinese XO), the SCS4 and CS2.4SE, and the CS7.3 which was not developed. He didn't work on the CS2.7. | |
| Thiel Owners If we had the luxury of the Great Symposium where we could hash these issues out with George Cardas, Bill Low Audiouest, Steve Straightwire and various astrophysicists of our choice, we could learn a lot. But in real life, we must make whatever pr... |