tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Rob - JAFant or others here know how to create a virtual system page for all to share. I'll PM you to try to connect behind the curtain. | |
| Thiel Owners Robert - you might be right about assembly. Rob G. said that all 2.7s were built in Lexington, but he was not in the Tennessee loop after they moved. The brands you state are Classic Thiel brands, except Topmay, which I don't recognize (but I'm no... | |
| Thiel Owners Robert - oops, I forgot where you got them. Nonetheless, they are unique, and were modded after New Thiel went to Nashville. I can speculate that New Thiel was experimenting with different internal wiring. I know they were experimenting with ultra... | |
| Thiel Owners Hey wire nuts - I've gone down a rabbit hole with Steven Hill about wire configurations, pros and cons and theoretical considerations that are way above my pay grade. I'm testing samples and configurations that he sends. Also, I have developed som... | |
| Thiel Owners I do enjoy the time I get in the studio. But there isn’t enough. I am comparing the wire configurations, but won’t be able to run all the permutations. I am comparing single and double runs of SW Octave II against Morrow 4 against OCOS without Zob... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - regarding PowerPlanes, there’s a short and a longer answer. The short is that the PowerPlanes were intended for home theater surround channels. The longer answer is hearsay from insiders, that wall or ceiling plane speakers never seem to gene... | |
| 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 |