tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners We have not yet developed a maintenance solution, but are working on it. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - you've got me thinking . . . I've been considering the 3.6 as the terminal discrete driver iteration of the model 3. But it might be more rightly thought of as a transition product between the sealed-bass "pure 3s" and the reflex bass "n... | |
| Thiel Owners I believe that a peer would have been good for him, his products, his company, and its future. But he never found that place. We all make our way the best we can. Thiel Audio carried him pretty well. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - again I agree. I suppose “maddening” is the word I would attach to Jim’s insistence on such low impedances. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I believe that the wavy driver completely eliminates lobing at its cross point, leaving only the lower cross point to lobe. And the 3.7 lower point is so low that beaming is quite minimal, so the on and off axis response is effectively v... | |
| Thiel Owners Brayeagle - thanks. I also confirmed with Rob that the SS2.2 is all Jim's design, updated by an improved amplifier.Unsound - I don't know. The motor and coil could be the same, but the surround, spider - compliance in general, and moving system ma... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound / Warren - a woofer designed for sealed box loading is a different animal from a ported unit. What you propose is very interesting to me. I would like to take a 3.6 and replace the woofer for a sealed box loading to make a super 3.5. That ... | |
| Thiel Owners Robrink - 02A doesn't sound like a Thiel model. Can you tell us anything about it? | |
| Thiel Owners Correction: I have read that the SS2.2 was introduced when Kathy was still president, so it would be an update of Jim's design. The conversation and questions I am remembering must have come later in the game. | |
| Thiel Owners Warren- wow. Let us know how this venture unfolds. Are you a closet headbanger? | |
| Thiel Owners FWIW - I think the SS2.2 is a post Jim Thiel alteration , much like the CS1.7 was. Does anybody here know if the SS2.2 has the room boundary compensation.? | |
| Thiel Owners Warren - I lack the direct comparison of SS2 vs SS3, but can share some relevant experience. I have one SS1 and two SS2s, which I have mixed and matched and moved around. First, my room is weird. It is my guitar-making and music studio and speaker... | |
| Thiel Owners Correction: In the second last paragraph I mis-typed 3.7 and 2.7 where I meant to say that the model 3 was designed to play louder . . . and the model 2 was to be more intimate . . . | |
| Thiel Owners sdecker - you are asking the right questions. And I have no answers. Remember that I had no involvement or insider information from 1995 to 2012. I'll tell you what little I have pieced together. Please pardon any repetition for the long term read... | |
| Thiel Owners sdecker - regarding the 2.4 vs 2.7, I can supply some contextualizaion and personal observations. I don't know either speaker well, but I heard both in September 2012 when the 2.7 was finalized, although our working comparisons were between the 2.... |