tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners And I am pleased with upgrade progress in the studio. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I'm not in a position to manufacture new frames, but we'll work on getting yours hotrodded. Catalysis - Thanks for your kind words about the CS3.5; I'm confident that we can upgrade some of the weak links in them. From a historical persp... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I'm not even close to time-lining. I am spitballing lots of areas to establish meaningful measurement techniques, audibility and suitability selection. I can say that the grille is a surprise and is suitable for work - worth pursuing, an... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - I concur with the merit of balanced EQ, and balanced operation in general. I am not the guy to develop that solution; I hope that someday we might find that resource. But the issue of over-driving with "modern" high-impact music and effe... | |
| Thiel Owners Rules - by "just as good", I believe Warren refers to sound quality. See this audiogon thread regarding some pros and cons. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/thiel-3-5-equalizer-adviceEven if the Thiel EQ or Golden Flutes alternative were com... | |
| Thiel Owners Jan - thanks for your comments. I am looking forward to including the 2.4s in my queue. They seem to be the audiophile darling in lots of ways, and I hope to calibrate how they stack up with the other models in my rotation. In particular my presen... | |
| Thiel Owners Just a thought. I suggest running the 3.5s wide open with no EQ. I remember the bass loading as critically damped, so it should approximate 12dB / octave. (But that's old memory) If you can match that rollout with a sub, the sub HF will operate in... | |
| Thiel Owners Sdl4 - this is the first time I've heard of one leg being disconnected. They all three should hold the center plug in place. If those tweeters were mine, I would repair them with aluminum filled epoxy. You might consult Rob before doing anything a... | |
| Thiel Owners GS - you might call Rob Gillum at Coherent Source Service about this matter. Tinsel leads do eventually fatigue, and Rob has replacement moving systems on hand. The little I know about ferrofluid is that there are many types and quantity is critic... | |
| Thiel Owners You can use the battery to gauge woofer movement. Are both channels moving similarly with the 6 volt signal? | |
| Thiel Owners Put your preamp in mono if you can. Even if you can't, both woofers should be moving about the same amount. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - recovery was immediate, since re-entry does not say no. I wish I had more time with Rob, but our schedules only overlapped by a couple of hours. We're on firm ground with mutual goals. The trip also included other contacts and prospects. Gett... | |
| Thiel Owners Nice room dimensions.Don't switch anything until you know if there is a polarity problem.Disconnect the cables at the power amp. Connect 6V battery - minus to black wire and touch + plus to red wire. The coax and woofer should both move out. Repea... | |
| Thiel Owners that's amp end of the disconnected RED wire. | |
| Thiel Owners Lemming - what's your ceiling height?Are all drivers working? Finger on the cone test.You can check driver polarity with a 6 volt lantern battery. Best test is battery plus to wire at the disconnected cable at the power amp. All drivers should mov... |