tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Jimi - excuse me, the 1.2 tweeter might be Seas. But either way, it is not a generic tweeter. Long ago and far away, details blur. | |
| Thiel Owners Jimi - work with Rob. A voice coil is connected to the dome and surround as a moving system. Moving systems are specific to their end-use with varying mass, compliance, impedance, wire gauge and geometry. Your CS1.2 tweeter was made by Vifa, and I... | |
| Thiel Owners Rules & Unsound - I, for one, would be very interested in looking in on your discussion. Rules, I commend your work highly. Nicely done, both the work and the report. | |
| Thiel Owners Jacksky - nearly all CS5s have been converted to CS5i with upgraded lower midrange, woofers and subwoofer. Rob @ Coherent Source Service has conversion kits for your drivers. I suspect that your exaggerated / loose bass may be caused by the near ... | |
| Thiel Owners jimi handtrix - likelihood is very high that your tweeter is "blown". You can test it by taking it out and applying 6 volts DC via a battery. When you touch Tweeter Plus (red) to Battery Plus you should hear a small click and feel the dome against... | |
| Thiel Owners rules - I for one would be very interested in your journal. | |
| Thiel Owners Kenazfilan - regarding back to back CS5s. Jim made that comment at the press conference introducing the CS5 in response to a question as to why he didn't provide a second set of inputs. It was not a thought-out position, but rather offhand: "if yo... | |
| Thiel Owners Dspr- regarding the CS5 vs CS5i. The late 80s was when Jim was exploring electro-magnetic field effects for higher resolution driver motors. Thiel developed new magnet and pole piece geometries which were applied to the CS5 midranges, woofers and ... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - I agree, one would not expect a paper cone to act that way. But it isn't truly a paper cone, but a multi-fiber cone with cellulose as one of the fibers. Jim developed that driver for the CS1.5 in parallel with another more expensive solut... | |
| Thiel Owners Jazzman - I know a little which I'll be glad to remember. You might read Stereophile's 1995 review when it was introduced, https://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/223/index.htmlI find it nearly incredible that this little, inexpensive speake... | |
| Thiel Owners Kenazfilan - the Bose 901 was a huge marketplace success at the time we were developing our initial ideas and prototypes. Audiophiles and specialty stores nearly universally rejected them as gimmicks, but there were some valid ideas in there. The ... | |
| Thiel Owners Ovinwar - the CS5 was Thiel's first application of in-house Finite Element Analysis, applied to all aspects of development. The original CS5 tweeter (also used in CS5.1, 3.6 and 2.2) was wholly developed in-house and represents a giant leap ahead,... | |
| Thiel Owners Ovinewar - do you have original CS5 or improved CS5i speakers? | |
| Thiel Owners Batmanfan - I have been told that one of Jim's primary preamps was the Sonic Frontiers 2-piece gold unit. But I don't know if it was used for the 3.7s. I know that at shows we never mixed and matched pre and power amps, seeming poor form from an i... | |
| Thiel Owners Batmanfan - I claim ignorance of what preamp Jim used for the CS3.7 development. He used the Krell FPB-600 and Goertz flatwire. How he approached equipment, in general, was to work with the obvious allies in the business, those brands which would ... |