tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Andy - the term of art: Phase Coherence is used in various ways by various people for various purposes. Thiel was a pioneer in Coherence along with Richard Vandersteen and John Dunlavy. We all use the term to mean Phase Coherent and Time Coinciden... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - you are puzzling it out. In the beginning, when we were wrestling with all these variables and making prototypes to compare A with B with C, we had some aha moments that led to the decision to tackle the 'real deal' . . . keeping the phase ... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - The Infinite Slope speakers are very good. His approach sequesters the phase misbehaviors to very narrow bands, so they are noticed very little, and the time misbehaviors are managed for least damage. Previously you noted " how high freque... | |
| Thiel Owners There is a real limitation to dynamics in first order filters. On the one hand, there is no time smear or phase rotation in the crossover range for very realistic immediacy, but on the other hand, the drivers, especially the tweeter, do more work,... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - a couple of points in a very complicated maze. Choice of impedance indirectly includes slopes because slow slopes require less moving mass to avoid self-attenuation on the treble roll-out, and lower inductance for the same reason, and there... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - Happy listening indeed . . . and for the right client in the right environment it isn't very subtle is it? What got us involved in making speakers was stories like yours, except in our beginning times the speaker part of your experience was p... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - The wavy drivers are very exciting, and depending on how the future unfolds, I hope to work with them.Regarding the CS5s, I doubt whether I can help the low impedance, which is baked in with those drivers. A dual input option would seque... | |
| Thiel Owners Oblgny - thank you for your thoughts and perspective. The input from you and this group serves as primary guidance along my foggy path. I know that I want to stabilize the brand into the future, and that will take the form of offering owners and u... | |
| Thiel Owners George - I am aware of the veil imparted by the EQ, and also the magnificence of the 40Hz and especially the 20Hz bass boost. I am investigating alternatives to the EQ, since it has always been considered a mixed blessing, and is inherently limite... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Guys - a report from the trenches. This week I have received my CS1.5s and 3.5s with EQ plus an Adcom 5300 amp. Thank you forum for providing these units for the hotrod garage! My setup is getting fairly flush, allowing comparison between vario... | |
| Thiel Owners jazzman - thank you for the news; sad but grounded in the facts of our times. Simon, and by extension the whole Audio Consultants organization, was a dream come true. I believe that if the marketplace were filled with retailers of his caliber, our... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - the CS2 and CS2.2 are conceptually the same product. Same driver sets, same crossover points. I believe whatever drivers we develop for the 2.2 going forward can be retrofitted to the CS2, along with the upgrades being developed for the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rules - I like the term "time coincidence" as less confusing.Also note that the term of art 'minimum phase' includes the least possible, given all constraints. Note also that the phase lead vs lag in crossover regions does completely cancel each o... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - Stereophile's next publisher after Larry Archibald did not tolerate the editor producing content that put their major advertisers in dim light. Andy - Design intent is 8' minimum distance. Farther away yields larger listening window. Jon ... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm off to a dinner meeting. I agree that the terms are used pretty loosely.BTW: Thiel considered in-room power response to be the number one parameter. T |