tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| 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. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - an interesting thing about the 3.6 is that the drivers and XO are extremely well developed. The specs are great. However, it is the product where I identified the "hard glare" which I have been working to ameliorate with surface flow tec... | |
| 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 ... |