tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Tomic - Thiel's early approach was to strive for a product line where the primary delineater was bass extension. Bigger products with deeper bass for bigger rooms. It seems that Jim wandered away from that approach in that the later 2s and 3s go n... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - that was a great review EXCEPT that both John and Larry included the statement that they couldn't get the CS5 to sing. That product sold poorly and didn't pay back its R&D costs; Jim was discouraged and dropped the idea of deep sealed b... | |
| Thiel Owners Robert - I know a little about those add-on filters. I spoke with the maker, who would only say that he is fixing known problems with the 3.7 upper frequencies, as well as with Rob at CSS, and we ran a cost thumbnail. The Stereophile review near-f... | |
| Thiel Owners Of interest here is that the C1 is a first order design. Thanks for the wonderful report! | |
| Thiel Owners Even earlier history - Steve ran the Mod Squad in the late 80s, early 90s where he kept abreast of evolving digital technologies, offering substantial performance upgrades to CD players (primarily). The Mod Squad's niche dissipated as digital filt... | |
| Thiel Owners I would love the opportunity to hear any Ayre amp on any Thiel speaker, especially with coaching from you guys. I've been told that Jim greatly appreciated Ayre's products. As a Modus Operandi, Thiel's listening always guided our work and led the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I can shed some historical light on your query of "what would Jim Thiel do?" Jim's thinking was decidedly compartmentalized. He considered his business that of designing loudspeakers and the other elements to get right were the business ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rosami - your detailed comparison of the 2.4 vs 3.6 reads like the design brief for the two products. The Renaissance Project work has illuminated ways to make qualitative improvements for all Thiel models. I especially thank members of this forum... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello all - I join in thanking JAFant for running this forum. I doubt that I would have taken up the challenge of trying to stabilize the future for Thiel owners without this forum. It's been a wonderful undertaking and I make some progress nearly... | |
| Thiel Owners Jayant - the hotrod garage is growing to take over another workbench and use of the finishing room. It’s a slippery slope! | |
| Thiel Owners Rockrink - Rob is always super busy, so I hesitate to offer him as a solution. Generally he will respond if he has a solution for you. The 0 series products are more than 40 years gone, so I don't know. As a long-shot speculation, Eminence Speaker... | |
| Thiel Owners Hmmm | |
| Thiel Owners Rockrink - on further remembering, we reinforced the 03A woofer baskets with epoxy. Rob at CSS might have original drivers or rebuild kits. | |
| Thiel Owners Rockrink - The original 03A woofers were made my Eminence, the sound reinforcement manufacturer. They had stamped steel baskets, foam surrounds, and (I think I remember) square ceramic magnets. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound- for many reasons, I am starting with old models. The 3.6 is good and stable without my ministrations for the time being. |