tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Andy - I second your motion. As car guys say, the least expensive option is the one you have. So if you have 2.4s, then upgrading resistors and caps is a huge bang for the buck. I concur with the 2 sub solution. The CS2 - 8" woofer just can't move... | |
| Thiel Owners Bighempin - if you contact Rob re the cap / nacelle on the 3.7, you might also ask the following: Does he know the serial number breaks for the 3 versions of the 3.7? I have developed XO schematics for the original, revision 1 and revision 2, but... | |
| Thiel Owners RonKent - Re: "hi Tom, thanks for the clarification on phase, absolute phase, and all those other phase things."To clarify, you did not err in your vocabulary. The term "phase" is applied widely to both matter of phase and matters of polarity. I... | |
| Thiel Owners ronkent - that live album at Stony Mountain is a normally produced remote recording, pretty good as they go. Her studio albums have higher audiophile values. Above I described the first Dancing at the Gate, later Will Ackerman produced Color of Li... | |
| Thiel Owners Phase is used to mean different things. The signal reversal that ronkent mentions is actually polarity, where the entire signal is switched plus for minus. That is straightforward to troubleshoot. Put a 4 volt DC signal way up front in your signal... | |
| Thiel Owners Todd - I mis-spoke to a degree. Much of the best modern equipment is phase coherent, but there is plenty of gear that employs global feedback, steep filters, etc. which introduce phase anomalies at super-sonic frequencies, which are known by some ... | |
| Thiel Owners Reference Recordings are completely phase correct, as is your playback chain unless there is a wiring error. So the signal at your speakers is phase coherent and if the speakers keep it straight you can hear that proverbial pin drop. Enjoy. | |
| Thiel Owners Kent - Yes, precisely. Jitter is timing errors which were believed by many to exist beyond human hearing, because when translated into the frequency / tonal domain, the artifacts are beyond the audible range. The auditory brain must work hard to w... | |
| 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 ... |