tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Happy New Year everyone. This forum has been a focusing inspiration for me taking on this upgrade project. This project has served to reorient my work life more toward music, which has always been important to me, but has often take a back-seat to... | |
| Thiel Owners If I ever get my recapped Classe's back from the shop, I'll report. DR6 pre and pair of DR9 power that I've had since the late 80s. | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - I can share information, but can't send drawings until Thiel Audio's bankruptcy is settled. You are correct; the 2.7 and 3.7 have 3 separate drivers with electrical crossovers, unlike the 2.4 which is electrically 2-way plus the mechanical ... | |
| Thiel Owners Sam - sorry for the dense language. The insight that is somewhat obscure is on the listener-cognition side of the equation. Phase coherence lifts a veil that allows the listener to believe the sound is real, and therefore the sound is subjected to... | |
| Thiel Owners Sam, your experience is consistent with mine during 50 years with myriad amps and signal chains. More power, especially current, works better. One insight is that current lag induces phase lag. In most speakers phase lag is not audible, since phas... | |
| Thiel Owners Remember that if you are using lead solder to be very careful with smoke extraction - lead accumulates and causes brain and nerve damage. Thiel solder is 96-4 / silver-tin, but it is much harder to work than lead solder such as Cardas eutectic. Yo... | |
| Thiel Owners Andy - If you are replacing a few parts and they are accessible, you can snip the lead wires and twist your component leads to those stubs - and then solder. | |
| Thiel Owners Sam - my cap of choice is ClarityCap CSA with potential CMR bypasses. My resistor choice is Mills MRA-12 which is nearly best of form for reasonable cost. Our work is still in process.Main benefits from upgrade include higher resolution, micro-dyn... | |
| Thiel Owners Rob - if boredom continues, find a pink noise source - equal energy per octave - and experiment with ear height at 8' to 10' from one speaker. Find the height where it just sounds right and deteriorates if you move up or down. If your listening ea... | |
| Thiel Owners esprits4s - mass always tries to sag, and these speakers are about 30 years old. Before incurring expense, I suggest turning all 6 woofers top for bottom. The offending woofer might take some time to re-center in its gap, but it could fix itself. | |
| Thiel Owners Gary - you must find a 7.2 woofer solution because all those owners including yourself can't be left stranded. Good luck with Rob. The 7.2 is on my wish list of eventual upgrades. But the only information I have is the owners manual and product re... | |
| Thiel Owners I know that there is some polarity jumble out there. In the 1980s early CD period, the BBC did a study that determined "most people" preferred aggressive sounds (trumpet, drums, etc.) to be in reverse polarity so that the cone moves inward on its ... | |
| Thiel Owners At one show before the advent of surround, we positioned 2 pairs of 3.5s in the normal stereo position - back to back. There was about 5' between the back-firing pair and the wall and plenty of side wall space as well. The effect is magnificent. T... | |
| Thiel Owners Subwoofers are inherently expensive, especially at Vandy / Thiel levels of execution. Hypothesis: The ear-brain builds its sonic interpretation from the bottom up. It infers harmonic structure and actually creates a 'phantom fundamental' if none i... | |
| Thiel Owners Guys - I just snagged a beater pair of MCS1s for the hot rod garage.Tom |