tomthiel
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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners It might add value to describe my approach to the cable differences. First, a disclaimer. I do not claim to know how the variables of cable interact with each other. I am apprised of the textbook basics of capacitance blocking low frequencies, ind... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - Covid-19 is not rearing its head badly here yet. The NH governor took swift, decisive action and people are being very cautious. I hope all of you do well. How's it down south? | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - for clarification, my experiment at your suggestion was to double-up my Morrow SP-4 cables. Each cable contained its traditional + and -, and that cable was paralleled with an identical + and - as in normal bi-wire, but with single pair of a... | |
| Thiel Owners sdl4 - Thank you. As you know, our undertaking was more heart and soul than the standard business model. We took pride in how long people used our speakers, sometimes for generations. Subtlety and nuance was a requirement, not a nicety. I agree wi... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - it's good to point out not only the article's conclusion, but also other aspects such as why are they doing it, and what is significant to whom. As a whole, the professional community thinks that wire doesn't matter. Audiophile sensibilitie... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for mentioning that. Those studies assume that anything that is scrambled can be descrambled with no deleterious artifacts. Part of my profession has been pointing out those "inaudible problems" in mixes and masters. I and my clients can he... | |
| Thiel Owners I agree about the 'special sound', as we have discussed here. My take focuses on the brain power that is freed up by not having to descramble the phase errors in other systems. I find the difference significant as do some others. "The Industry" (T... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - thanks for the article. I would mention that some of the statements are broad enough in nature that they don't apply to any specific loudspeaker in its use conditions. Of course, I mean Thiel. Toole's statement that off axis (vertical and h... | |
| Thiel Owners Reubent - a general note: The 2.3 was the first generation of the passive coax. That coax and the woofer were bettered by the 2.4. But the crossover topologies are the same, and many of the values are same or similar. Eventual performance upgrades... |