tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Hi Kent - Dana's music comes from that place we all want to go . . . it goes by names such as life and love, and sweet inspiration. Her inaugural album "Dancing at the Gate" is in many ways my favorite. One small piano in one small room with one p... | |
| Thiel Owners Ekohn - They're not bookshelf, but you might consider PowerPoint1.2s. They are wall or ceiling mount, so they take no floor-space. Same driver as the SCS4 in an aluminum wall-mount cabinet. Their configuration minimizes boundary effects for extrem... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy- I sent my response before reading yours. Agreed, lots of competing priorities to juggle.Tom | |
| Thiel Owners The impact of phase coherence is hard to communicate and harder to prove. In fact, the industry at large has proven to its satisfaction that it doesn't matter. I have spoken here about the personal experience and psychoacoustic study surrounding w... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - the circuits control the drivers for a net 6dB / octave slope all the way down, including the interaction with the top end of the port where another pole is added to the top end of the woofer xo. Various conjugate circuits are applied to c... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - same coax but higher crosspoint to the 8" 2.7 woofer requiring 416uF series blocks. 400uF electro + 15 PP + 1uF styrene / tin foil. The lower 3.7 crosspoint needs 226uF as 3x75uF PPs plus the 1uF S/T. ( no Es in the 3.7 signal path.)As I've... | |
| Thiel Owners Jack, my first thought was what Beetle suggested, but turning the room around is a very big deal, and listening from the dining room is probably a goal . . . 5' is a lot, and somewhat more than necessary, but more is better to separate the direct ... | |
| Thiel Owners Jack - I'll jump right in since I have set up many rooms with CS5s. I suspect the root of your problem is having them too close to the wall behind them. The 5 goes down below 20Hz as a point source, so you are getting lots of back-bounce reflectio... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - thank you for consolidating your experience for us. It all sounds quite straight-forward as written, but considerable study and thought went into this trial and, as you know, considerable time elapsed while researching and considering thi... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - I say that I don't yet know enough to make any calls of good or bad news. As time goes by I will compare notes with Rob and others and get more solid footing. I did not mean to imply that Lex was inferior. In fact I hear an overall rightn... | |
| Thiel Owners Guys - I should add something to the 2.7 vs 3.7 comparison. I have many unknowns in my knowledge equation - piecing together facts of history for better understanding. Beyond yesterday's thoughts, there are some manufacturing matters that may flav... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - I heard what you mean. I don't know whether the difference is in the frequency domain - the mid / tweeter coax is identical. The XO is different enough that I can't make any direct comparisons, except that the 2.7 has a big bank of electrol... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - here's a sketch of what I know. Please redirect if I have not addressed what you want to know. The fellow who claims to have designed the 2.7 as Thiel being "very demanding", had little to no input on it. He was interviewed for the project... | |
| Thiel Owners PW - in the absence of other responses, I offer similar advice as to Mr Fire. The room is a huge part of the playback experience and can often be directly addressed very cost-effectively. Your geometry would benefit from effectively shortening the... | |
| Thiel Owners mrpostfire - Your room is large, which is great, but its dimensions present some potential standing wave issues. The average ceiling height is the same as the width and the length is double that dimension. That setup is less than ideal. If there i... |