tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners George - I'm out the door till Friday, so just a quick response. Thank you. I suspect a lot of audiophiles envy you . . . listening to music for god's sake! I see our job as equipment providers as serving just that desire, to hear the whole envelo... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - your opinion is quite useful to me. I'm casting a wider net than my personal, usually quite old, experience. I presently have bought a long run of unterminated ProCo cable 12 x 4 which resembles your links. Bluejeans' welder sounds wonderfu... | |
| Thiel Owners George - I am especially interested in learning your methods of comparison or evaluation.(This inquiry is an honest one) | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - it would be helpful to me to know what interconnect and speaker cable you are using in your system, as well as the other components as well as your comments about strengths and weaknesses. I am calibrating my experience and understandings f... | |
| Thiel Owners Sdl-4 - I think it is considered a solid value and they also sell into the pro market. Harmon among others use their products. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - In my wire investigations I have learned that 6-9s wire is nearly extinct and even 5-9s is practically unaffordable. As the world changes toward miniaturization, highly complex component circuitry and wireless data and signal transmission, wi... | |
| Thiel Owners Sdl-4 - FWIW, Straightwire remained an active / interactive supply partner with Thiel from early 80s when they began until 2013 when Thiel was sold. SW knows quite a bit about wire, although they sometimes seem slighted in the market for lack of e... | |
| Thiel Owners 8th-note - gotta go soon, so you get the short answer. Do some practicing with a vacuum cleaner and then pull your dent out with vacuum. If you don't hear voice coil rubbing, you're not doing damage. When it's as smooth as you can get it, put the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Although I and Kathy were integrally part of the early decisions, directions and perspectives, it was Jim who took the bit in his teeth to create the electro-acoustic solutions. And he got better and better. My chief contribution was building a co... | |
| Thiel Owners Sdl4 - very well stated. There exists an arrogance of intelligence which imagines it knows everything when it can explain anything. Thiel's founding attitude and guiding principle was that we only understood a small corner of what we were dealing ... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - On to your question. Our first speaker wire, including the 1978 CES where we introduced the 03, was home-brew made from #0 stranded welding cable configured for lowest conventional problems. It measured well and looked impressive. Jim was al... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - thanks for the link. I'll cover some ground, perhaps repeating some stuff from previous posts. Wire was an essential element in Thiel's adoption of first order coherence. We sweated blood for a year and a half in 1977 - 1979 to decide to adop... | |
| Thiel Owners Sdl4 - this discussion fits a template deeply ingrained in the mainstream engineering community: if you can't prove it, it's not real. The article is embarrassing, but beyond that it doesn't explore much of what Jim knew because Gene wouldn't admi... | |
| Thiel Owners JAFant - would you please supply a link to the Olsher article? I didn't find it searching the Absolute Sound site. | |
| Thiel Owners Rules - you may be interested to know that Jim's 2nd choice was 2nd order. The 01 had been 3rd order, the 02 was second order, but not inverted polarity like Wilson, but rather both drivers in positive polarity with the X points fudged to lower th... |