tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners This answer may be a little lame - but here it goes anyhow. Note that I have been away for decades and my personal experience listening to music through a robust system ended with the 3.5 and the following 2.2. Now I have PowerPoints and 2.2s and ... | |
| Thiel Owners "There's a thousand ways to lose a horse-race". New Thiel knew lots of them. Yesterday I spoke with Bob Brown, an industry veteran who was brought in as COO at the beginning to help navigate the new waters. He remains frustrated and somewhat angry... | |
| Thiel Owners In my opinion, there was room for Classic Thiel to improve and grow dramatically within the parameters of the original design thesis. Imagine coherent offerings designed around the last-generation coincident drivers with additional coincident lowe... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - When Rob bought the Thiel service department earlier this year, he saw the New Thiel inventory and they said that 3 pair had been sold. Perhaps a few more since then. New Thiel missed the mark, failed to identify the narrow Thiel niche, and... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes. Most of the property relates to "New Thiel" inventory and their "Aurora" streaming club paraphernalia. The intellectual property will be sold and friendly buyers are welcome to raise their hands along with thielrules. I am in direct contact w... | |
| Thiel Owners The side walls of the 2.7 are a smaller clip of the actual 3.7 panels, composed of multiple woods in assymetric layup with constrained layers - a technical tour-de-force for some high-buck brands to drool over. Thiel vacuum bagged the finish venee... | |
| Thiel Owners Among the materials I have developed / tested are: fired ceramic panels, fiber reinforced hydrostone panels and/or corner braces, aluminum bars or channels, solid wood struts and, of course, the pierced MDF shelves in all Thiel cabinets. One thing... | |
| Thiel Owners There are multiple brace shelves stacked in the speaker. I will find resonant areas such as between woofer and passive on the 2.2 and devise a brace. I am also getting promising results soaking the driver mount areas with a wood hardener. My super... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - I believe the 2.4 has an MDF baffle, as the model 2 has had from the beginning. Whereas earlier 2s had 2" thick, I think the 2.4 is 3" thick like the 3.6. beetlemania knows, he has been in there.The baffle is one thing. Another is that the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Indeed - mixing amps is extremely treacherous, which was the main reason, along with mixing cables, that Jim axed the dual binding posts. Good points about cables and special considerations. I suspect the bi-amp advantages are not special to the 3... | |
| Thiel Owners jacob - we don't yet know what form the upgrades will take. One complicating factor is that Thiel crossovers since 1990 / CS2.2 use silver/tin solder which requires technical know-how. We will probably have a first-level upgrade of critical caps a... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - Thank you for your point of view. It is entirely valid and I do not intend to recommend the Benchmark for the reasons you cite. But my task is to find source and process equipment that operate at the edge of serviceability rather than bi... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding 2.4: The XO part of the SE upgrade is simply replacing the 2 coax feed caps with ClairtyCapSA (best at the time). Rob @ CSS has them.Our upgrades are trumping that in spades. We are replacing all components with carefully chosen, cost ef... | |
| Thiel Owners bcupari - and all - keep your radar out for spare 3.5 drivers. They are no longer made and in short supply. If enough interest develops, I hope to address the 3.5 upgrade in a subsequent round. | |
| Thiel Owners Well guys, I have been doing homework on the (new) Thiel, LLC bankruptcy as well as making slow progress on classic hot-rods. First project will be beetlemania's CS2.4s - pretty full-blown in scope. What has been getting clearer is that the low-im... |