tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners JA - the hotrod garage gets some attention every day. I am cooking with a pair of 1.6s and SS-2s with passive XOs. I am using all redbook CDs because the Metric Halo DAC for high res files is in beta revision. Well made CDs aren't too shabby. Awhi... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - Let's not call it disdain; more like chagrin. Their proposition was not his idea and he didn't expect folks to notice their relative gentleness. He liked what he heard and the 02 opened a door toward where the designs went. | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - you might enjoy a little history trip, even if a particular or two might be blurry. The model 02 was a particularly formative step in Thiel's early evolution.Remember, things were very different in the mid 70s. There was no "high end" yet. ... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - your interest has inspired me to resurrect and study my 02s which are in transit from Virginia. the o2 is second order like Wilson, ps etc. stock peerless tweeter and normal coils caps resistors woofer and port. Unbraced cabinet, no anti di... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes. | |
| Thiel Owners Bluetone - I would like to add some perspective for your 3.5s. As Ketchup alludes, the design is dated in the sense that each product builds on and improves the groundwork laid be its predecessor. Add the problems of replacement drivers, and ther... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - the amount of toe-in is highly dependent on the room. How wide is your room? With enough side space and absorption or diffraction at the first side reflection point, Thiel speakers are designed for straight-ahead positioning. Dropping off... | |
| Thiel Owners Ketchup makes a very good point. When I reviewed upgradible status for all the models, we nixed the 3.5 due to unavailability of drivers. As long as Rob can rebuild them, that is a safe and effective method of keeping your 3.5s on the air.A furthe... | |
| Thiel Owners Bluetone - Please pursue this 3.5 midrange matter. Make a chart of the # and parameters original driver and the various replacements. As ketchup says the original cone was paper. Kevlar is "better", but its resonances would be different plus it gi... | |
| Thiel Owners Over time I am gradually piecing together bits of information. I hope to eventually find those driver curves, but don't have them yet. | |
| Thiel Owners Jon - as I've mentioned before, I have made a study of auditory neurology and experimented with who hears what how. I would say that you 'get it' and in a manner that was formative to Thiel taking on the challenge of coherence way back when. We ex... | |
| Thiel Owners Jim and Richard were both extremely frugal engineers and approached the work very similarly in broad strokes. The largest budgetary difference was the cabinet, which gave Van significant sonic-budget advantages. People compare and contrast sonic p... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - H&H was in Southern California. That's all I remember. | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, recording one's own or otherwise knowing intimately the nature of your source material is necessary to not get lost in the woods. When setting up my studio this time around, I began with my analog bias built on a vintage Ampex deck. But all t... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - that point of "hotter than they should be" is of great interest. It amazes me that there are no real standards regarding target speaker response - "what should be". The scientific work being done at JBL, the Canadian Research Lab, etc. cent... |