tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Andy - in re-reading your question I see that your hypothetical speaker spec is entirely in the frequency domain, requiring playing and measuring sine wave tones. But, I am addressing the time domain. Jim specified some of our speakers in mS rise ... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - there's too much to chew on here. But I can comment a little.No I do not think we hear tone above 20kHz. And I know that dogs do, and that Natasha hears bats talk and that fish sense 50kHz signals.David Blackmer (DBX founder) and others hav... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof, Andy and all - lotta stuff to chew here. We approached these matters a few months ago and got into trouble. I suggested that study was in order, not intending to disparage anyone - it is all quite subtle and worthy of more depth than we can ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - a major part of the art is prioritizing the relative value of various aspects of the whole package. There is some experience on this forum - post your ideas and hope the guys will keep you out of trouble. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - to be clear, I meant to keep the 18 gauge going to the drivers, but you can increase the size between binding posts and XO panel.Normal binding posts work. I'm saying to wrap the wire tightly before soldering. Let us all know when you find t... | |
| Thiel Owners Excuse me - I mis-remembered Rob's model. | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - I have done considerable work comparing and choosing caps and resistors, both with Beetle and consulting with folks at Thiel. I chose Mills MRA-12 resistors and ClarityCap CSA feed capacitors plus some CC customs for shunts. It is likely tha... | |
| Thiel Owners As a general observation, wire management is a big deal. Thiel buried long runs in channels routed into cabinet walls, sometimes used goo to attach to braces and generally made a spiral by rotating the driver as it goes into position. If you've ha... | |
| Thiel Owners All - I think this lovely Autumn Friday in New Hampshire is a good time to share some recent developments. Several months ago, there were posts here about the Thiel midrange being shouty and harsh, and I pushed back to have set up scores of shows ... | |
| Thiel Owners Jafant - I catch all the posts, but try to limit my input to matters that matter. Rob has told me about the 2.3 x MCS coax, but third-party verification is always in order before anyone commits cash. | |
| Thiel Owners Ambroiseg - I believe the MCS-1 shares the coax with the CS2.3 | |
| Thiel Owners yyz - for your smallish space, you might also consider CS2.7s with the same coax. Lots of fans here. | |
| Thiel Owners Bighempin - I agree with Paul: in the pistonic range the same amount of air is moved, so the frequency response is not impacted very much. But there are further subtleties in my opinion. The shape of the compression wave coupled to the air will ge... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes! perhaps a fat milkshake straw for mouth suction. | |
| Thiel Owners Andy 2 - Beetlemania and Holco (?) both reported improvements with internal wire. I have wire from StraightWire and Cardas in my comparison kit. However, the wire itself in the 2.4s is pretty high-end. It is 5-9s, high purity, low oxygen, long cry... |