tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners The clones I described above are gold plated brass from parts express. Genuine WBT multiplies the price. | |
| Thiel Owners When you say 'nude termination' I take it to mean the cable is self-terminated with no additional hardware. Good move. But now to the speaker input terminals. Whenever there is a cross-sectional excess of conductor in the signal path, eddy current... | |
| Thiel Owners A cable note worth mentioning (again?) regards binding posts. Going back to the 2002 CS1.6, Thiel used gold plated brass binding posts with a big knurled knob. I could speculate about how that came to be, but I won't. I will say you can achieve co... | |
| Thiel Owners lloyd - I'll chime in. I don't know the HMS cables. I do know the StraightWire Octave II (now III) which I can recommend. I can speak generally to the subject, having taken a very deep dive over the past couple of years. I suggest avoiding any ca... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - no. My observation was general across the few speakers I have seen. NO gasket on the 2.7 fits Thiel’s strategy perfectly. It’s likely the paint is enough to seal the air. BTW are your driver screws magnetic? | |
| Thiel Owners anzen - lots of interacting variables and solution visions. Among those is de-coupling which Thiel rejected. Thiel’s vision landed on maximizing the connection between the driver and cabinet to reduce recoil, increase effective mass and stiffness ... | |
| Thiel Owners I'd rather you not as well. I want to address the relevant aspects of sophisticated performance and physical vibration control is a real as well as manageable issue. | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - thanks for the input. What may not be self-evident is that changes such as these wire lengths require system tweaking. I had presumed that the system would be optimized around some fairly short umbilical length, but am open to reconsider... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - that's a complication I hadn't anticipated. Wire is highly reactive and susceptible to noise from multiple causes. Having long runs between the XO and speaker would require specific engineering to maintain target performance. I've becom... | |
| Thiel Owners The floor interface is a complex problem, especially considering that each floor is unique and sometimes substantially different from other floors. | |
| Thiel Owners I agree. Outboard has lots of advantages. But I also want a significant upgrade that doesn't require the outboard box. I'm able to get a considerable inboard advance over stock. Outboard is better. | |
| Thiel Owners Tom D. Indeed we avoid aligning the geometric plane of the XO panel normal to the velocity propagation wave. The vertical boards are aligned to present minimal area to the velocity wave. Adjustable resonance control is an attractive mechanism, bot... | |
| Thiel Owners anzen - it’s a complex, multi-dimensional puzzle. In terms of pure signal propagation, PCBs outdo most PtoP layouts, especially if one-sided. PCBs shorter leads create smaller antenna effects. A new insight (to me) is how signal chaos is created w... | |
| Thiel Owners Anthony - please keep lurking. Sorry the going has been so slow. We're close to an upgraded equalizer and working in other areas. First we need a tweeter based on the UltraTweeter used in the CS5,3.6, and 2.2, now obsolete and unsupportable. Next ... | |
| Thiel Owners audiiofilio123 - two thoughts come to mind. A: you like more bass than the CS.5 delivers or B: something is wrong. Your room is appropriately sized and I'll presume your equipment is up to the task, with the caveat that the CS.5 has a low impedan... |