tomthiel
Responses from tomthiel
| Thiel Owners Spur - Rob Gillum of Coherent Source Service has repair parts and experience for all Thiel models. To your direct question: Yes, same tweeter. That tweeter was developed fully in-house for the CS5 and also used in the 2.2 as well as the 3.6. Of co... | |
| Thiel Owners Jon - you guys are expressing the fundamental quandary, sometimes stated as ’Mother Nature is a -----’. The laws of physics can only be bent so far before they dig in their heels. The model 3 (as in 03) was developed with very good bass as a princ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rosami - thank you for your cogent synopsis. On the bright side, I do have a pair of 3.6s in the HotRod Garage. So that model is more real than hypothetical. Also, the subtle knowledge I am garnering from my experiments applies to all models. It i... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - Unaskedfor advice, given in good faith: I would find it nearly impossible and at least thoroughly frustrating to design a first-order, phase coherent loudspeaker. It took us decades to develop and improve drivers to eventually cover 7 octav... | |
| Thiel Owners jthifi - don't you love it when he talks that way?I am referring to a Stasis design, and not the original A series. Stasis was the dynamic bias which has morphed and grown throughout Nelson's career.unsound - I now may remember that we used a 400e... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello Paco - difficult room. Some setup thoughts from my experience: Phase-time coherence introduces problems not heard in normal time-challenged speakers. Your ear-brain strives to make sense of the signal. In non-coincident driver Thiels, the re... | |
| Thiel Owners jthifi - Stasis was the or among the first Pass designs. Its sliding bias and resulting internal stability obviated the need for global feedback. It is very linear and musical and as mentioned, Thiel used the Stasis 400A (last 70s) as one of its d... | |
| Thiel Owners Pass' Threshold amps do quite a bit right for all the right reasons. | |
| Thiel Owners JA - I hardly ever get back to Lexington, but that will change with the Renaissance Project. I'll look him up! | |
| Thiel Owners Utrak - your room is small, but its proportions are very good, plus you get bass room gain without supporting the deepest and most problematic frequencies. Yes, they are quite efficient and the impedance doesn't drop as low as newer models, plus t... | |
| Thiel Owners Utrak - I can offer a broad-brush intention: more than a dream, less than a plan. Rob of Coherent Source Service and I are working on upgrades for various classic Thiel models. The CS3.5 is now on the list, and the CS3 is likely to come along as a... | |
| Thiel Owners I think it not improper to point out that JA seems to hear what his measurements tell him. At 50" there is a midrange suck-out and some spikes. Notice that he wonders in print if that is what he is hearing. However, those ARE measurement artifacts... | |
| Thiel Owners I interpreted "all pass" as any filter that is not causing a rolloff. As I used the term, there are multiple all pass elements in all of Jim's crossovers. They include various shaping and resonant circuits which are directly opposed to specific re... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - I am substituting caps in the PPs and 1.6s, which directly track your experience. | |
| Thiel Owners That photo is probably an early or prototype version which goes to shows and seminars. Typically it will morph through a year or more to match the actual settled particulars of its driver complement. At first glance, coils are 4-9s, best of form. ... |