tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Yes, dogs' hearing goes higher. Don't let your dog or cat near your tweeters! | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Andy,I believe the ear drum maxes out at 20kHz.#1: the cochlear envelope gets inputs in addition to the ear drum.They mostly modify the conversion from sense (electromagnetic energy) to neuron output, but also direct cochlear vibration produces... | |
| Thiel Owners George - by tonality I intend to mean the whole perception of tone, which includes the fundamental and all the overtones. Tonal information, as I understand it, is processed differently than time information. A very interesting, to me, aspect is t... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - Tonality stays intact far above 20kHz, and plays some role in perception. I have auditioned mics / preamps flat to 50K and 40 and 30 and 20kHz. I along with most people can hear the difference. Go figure. That fact is not questioned in the... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - I use the CD-80 either in-toto or as a transport to the PSAudio Stellar DAC-PRE. The performance of the two signal paths is similar. The PS affords the ability to select low-pass filter types and remote selection of inputs and volume control.... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - the SCD-1 is sick. After a few discs, it would not play, would not open its lid and showed bogus text . . . It is at the shop, needs a new master control board, which Sony does not support. I'm looking for a used board.But . . . while it play... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes - the impulse response contains both time and frequency information which are related in known ways decipherable by Fourier and Hilbert Transforms. But, I am referring to the auditory-brain mechanisms which perceive frequency/tonality differen... | |
| 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... |