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| 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... | |
| Thiel Owners PW - what is the ceiling height of your tunnel? | |
| Thiel Owners PW - Your listening position is far enough away to allow wider spacing, but anything over 10' gets dicey for center-fill. I generally consider distance to walls as more critical than distance between speakers. Your 5' behind is ideal, at less than... | |
| Thiel Owners Holco - I appreciate you sharing your work with us. I am getting Jantzen wax coils for direct comparison with ERSE foil. Both use the same 5-9+alloy and both are wound on sophisticated tensioning equipment. Both are bonded, but ERSE is resin and J... | |
| Thiel Owners Holco - since you performed multiple changes at the same time, I wish to ask a favor. Can you compare SQ with / without the drain wire? Thanks, Tom | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - the measurement that would likely reflect on what you are hearing is a radical zoom-in on the onset transient impetus. The shoulder will be cleaner / sharper. Similarly the top shoulder before decay will be cleaner and simpler. Deep know... | |
| Thiel Owners Rules - if an engineer with today's tools put his chops to it, the differences could probably be verified. It takes a lot of doing and my experience is that measurements only verify what we already learn through listening. I suspect the Klippel an... | |
| Thiel Owners Holco - thank you for the report. Regarding leakage - ideally you want none, but practically a small woofer enclosure leak doesn't do much. Are both channels the same? Of serious concern is if the woofer enclosure leaks into the midrange sub-enclo... |