tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Batmanfan - I was long gone at 3.7 time, so I can only give you a sketch. Rob says nothing had changed since my days. The tonal balance and hard-core engineering was done in the chamber, which was semi-anechoic with previously delineated dimension... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - my present work on these products strongly suggests that "neutrality vs musicality" is not necessarily a dichotomy. The assumption that we must sacrifice Articulation / Neutrality / Resolution in order to get "Musicality" is not necessarily... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - The 2.7 is on my long list. I am gaining experience by taking on older designs with more room for improvement and more urgent end of capacitor life issues. I am learning a lot as I go that will all apply to more recent models such as the 2.... | |
| Thiel Owners The CS1.7 is a different story. Its development was finalized by New Thiel via Mark Mason, formerly of PSB. Shortly after the sale, Steve DeFuria was hired as national sales manager and he contacted me to arrange a consultancy for product/ philoso... | |
| Thiel Owners The 1.6 was introduced in 2002 and sold approximately 3000 pair in its 10 year run, about the same as the CS1.5 from 1993 to 2002. All 1.6 cabinets, drivers, final assembly and testing was done in Lexington. My #1611-12 pair have Lex crossovers w... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - thanks for the leads. JA - I'm working on real quantities in the field. Thiel didn't compete well at its lower end. Dealers I knew thought those products made no market sense - they were too radically different from their price peers. In ... | |
| Thiel Owners Pardon me, I mis-typed. The 2.2 and 3.5 will follow the 1.5. Lots of work is being done on the 2.2 which can be applied to the 3.5 which seems to have a strong following, especially in its sealed bass. I'm looking for a pair of 3.5s as well as 1.5... | |
| Thiel Owners Looking for CS1.5s. I've spent a good part of the past year building a lab with measurement equipment, various playback chains, a hot-rod garage of models and accumulating knowledge and ideas. Many pieces of the puzzle are in place, and I have dec... | |
| Thiel Owners George - I auditioned the HD600s and the 800s. The 800-S is a big step up due to controlling a resonance at about 8K and the angled circular transducer. As I mentioned, my decision was for alignment with the recording community, not doubting that ... | |
| Thiel Owners George - I've never actually heard electrostatic phones. I use Beyerdynamic 770s live and Sennheiser 800S in the studio-lab. I chose them for high quality neutrality and because many top-notch recording and mastering engineers use them. Of interes... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - the most modern Thiel I have in the HRGarage is the 1.6, which predates your 2.7s by a decade. And I don't hear any of those harsh attributes in it either. There was steady progress made through the years. But the early products could and w... | |
| Thiel Owners George - C'mon, please say more.Thosb - You're welcome. These questions fascinate me this time around. | |
| Thiel Owners Thosb - the broad brush paints a picture that the select few amps (which you guys end up with) seem to handle the difficult loads, mitigate "the harshness" or otherwise perform well without softening or sweetening the signal. Jim's view was that t... | |
| Thiel Owners I bought a pair of AHB-2s about a year ago and am thrilled. I specifically want to hear bridged vs stereo and how this amp stacks up against my well-known Classe DR9s (also a pair). They are remarkably similar and grain-free. The Adcom GFA555mkII ... | |
| Thiel Owners Thosb - Wow, what a ride! The topic of amps driving Thiels is, of course, of great interest and concern to me. Jim did his thing for his reasons, and I disagreed (about impedance mostly), but he was the designer-engineer. The interacting variables... |