tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Andy - I'll try to fill in some blanks. And this piece of history may interest some of you.The 3-D baffle is a rather difficult item to produce one-off. The 03 had a flat baffle and the 03a added wool felt around the drivers which worked very well... | |
| Thiel Owners Correction: I meant the 5 has sealed bass | |
| Thiel Owners Asturias - I am spitballing for thoughts on cs5i vs cs7. Never heard direct comparison. 5i has older drivers, but with similar motor technologies to 7s. 5 has no coax, so vertical loving is greater. Baffles are similar tech, but 7s are thicker and... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - our time was quite limited, a wreck on the expressway cost us over two hours late arrival. Most of our time covered tech. Rob has original driver and product testing rigs and much deeper stock than I had imagined. He has all the development p... | |
| Thiel Owners Guys - I am traveling and booked solid. I’ll report early next week. | |
| Thiel Owners Preliminary report from Lexington. Rob is well equipped and stocked with knowledge, experience and parts. A truckload of spare parts was delivered from Audio Consultants - what a score! We spent some time comparing CS7 to 7.2. More discussion can ... | |
| Thiel Owners I’m on my way to visit Rob where we’ll audition lots of models including cs7 vs cs7.2. Rob says concrete vs composite are the same. I’ll form my opinion Wednesday. | |
| 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... |