tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Snbeall - the upgrade project is making progress every day, but the reports are lean due to legal / ownership uncertainties, which I never expected to take this long to work out. All products can be improved with better passive components, but the... | |
| Thiel Owners George, yes we did. Jim was very mathematically oriented. The TS parameters were quite new when we began, and I doubt we would have tried speakers without them. Our first drivers were from Eminence and Long Engineering, whom we cajoled Into derivi... | |
| Thiel Owners Tomic - my friend was an early entry for aerospace and aircraft parts. And he's committed to the Love of Music, and he really knows his stuff. That's about as firm as we are at this time. There are lots of reasons to not care about pistonic diaphr... | |
| Thiel Owners Tomic - we don't have that scan adapter, but it is indeed affordable. Thiel was always going for pistonic driver behavior and the wavy drivers take that way up. I have an associate who could make the wavy drivers in carbon at a real-world price. W... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding measurements - some of you have probably seen Jim's setup. It was home-brew, but quite extensive. Of interest is that the swept sine wave told more about some aspects, and his "bleeper" which was 1/3 octave tone-bursts, told different as... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - JA's testing procedure was dictated by physical / budget constraints. Fair enough. In the early years he explained how / in what ways his measurements were misconstruing the truth. But as time went on, he spoke as though the anomalies fro... | |
| 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... |