tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners To clarify, in the last paragraph of my previous post I was referring to "wire", not the brand StraightWire. I meant to say that all wire has many effects and artifacts beyond resistance, capacitance and inductance. Most of those spurious artifact... | |
| Thiel Owners Sgmlaw - We were aware of the Bell Labs research, which concurred with Jon Dahlquist's exclusive use of 18 solid in the DQ10. We compared 18 solid with 18 stranded and the solid won hands-down. Cousin Ted concurred and we went with 18. In my prese... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - you're on it. My study over the decades has taught me that listening is far more active and synthetic than we would assume. Auditory input is pretty sketchy in that sound pressure moving the auditory cilia must be fundamentally interpreted ... | |
| Thiel Owners Rules - I appreciate and concur with your concerns. You would be pleased to know the level of verification we employed at Thiel. Serious science. But there is this other dimension. In my acoustic guitar design and archival recording I have identif... | |
| Thiel Owners So, it seems you may be grounding the driver frames?Thiel drivers since CS2.2 in 1990 use Faraday networks / shorting rings in the voice coil / pole piece structure which should cancel stray fields. But, stray residual eddy currents are possibly i... | |
| Thiel Owners Holco - I am very interested in your outcome reports. I have never experimented with such configurations, but considerable dynamic electromagnetic fields are at work in the speaker, beyond my understanding of their inner relationships. I am unclea... | |
| Thiel Owners All - regarding upgrade pricing - there will be multiple plateaus for each model which are self-defining as the project proceeds. You know it is possible to spend more on crossover parts than the entire original speaker system parts cost. I'm not ... | |
| Thiel Owners Sgmlaw - indeed electrolytics are an issue; they fail over time, drastically and sometimes catastrophically at the end, but also by decrease of value over time, as you say. ELs show up in 6 figure speakers, it's expensive to avoid them. So, a 30 ... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - that is correct, the twisted pair wire I sent you was sourced from StraightWire, which is an industrial as well as OEM and consumer source. As you mentioned, we will be comparing that wire in various gauges against other contenders when t... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - internal wire is definitely a factor. It carries a slightly different set of requirements from external cable, which must cope with many unknowns of run length, electromagnetic environment, speaker impedance fluctuation, and more. The inter... | |
| Thiel Owners I vote for cables as short as you can make them. And then however they're made doesn't matter as much. | |
| Thiel Owners Fan - Very helpful in deconstructing some performance differences between the round and slot reflex system. When we're finished with the 1.6, I believe we'll have something quite worth auditioning. | |
| Thiel Owners Guys, can any of you help me with some basic information re the CS1.6? I just bought a pair for the hot rod garage, but won't see them for a couple of weeks - I've never seen a pair. I need to know the dimensions of the slot / port. How wide is t... | |
| Thiel Owners Don was an electrical engineer as is his son Dave, Michael's father. | |
| Thiel Owners I have some thoughts on The Listening Room. Don Hoatson was an early Thiel adopter, a pioneer from his opening in 1978. He was going strong with Thiel when I left in 1995 when I lost touch. His rooms were indeed great sounding due to their dimensi... |