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| Thiel Owners jon - the fiber is to increase impact and stress resistance and add some damping. It does not reduce shrinkage. Concrete is Portland Cement based, which shrinks. Gypsum cements expand. USG Hydrostone is a combination of the two and can be admixed ... | |
| Thiel Owners ish - I know those Hales speakers very well. I consulted for Hales during their development and compared 1st vs 4th order XOs. Paul is very bright and competent and pragmatic. The development time / cost / benefit and all adds up to 4th being "goo... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - you are right. Measurement distance of 50" and closer earlier in time, does not allow the proper triangulation for the drivers' travel path. 8' was Thiel's stated minimum. The limit was Stereophile's set up, but the results looks like sp... | |
| Thiel Owners jon - regarding bright 2 2s. You are correct that there is a slight propensity toward warmth. The mid-bass centered at 100Hz is almost full when the speaker is optimized 5' from walls. When moved closer to walls, that zone and below gets stronger.... | |
| Thiel Owners All - lots of good information. Bottom line is that most of those who try are prone to fail. An underlying cause is that coherent transducers are roughly an order of magnitude more difficult.Andy asks why more manufacturers don't "do it". Short an... | |
| Thiel Owners Back to Green Mountain - it seems I read a review of a fairly early model. Later 6moons reviews of their further work sounds very impressive. I still hesitate to comment without measurement verification of success. Sorry for my first response base... | |
| Thiel Owners andy - I don't see any claims for the Meadowlark, nor technical specs or lab reviews. Good reputation, but I can't comment on their coherence.Green Mountain has tons of claims and an approach that seeks coherence. There is a Stereophile review tha... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - Our 'other' listening room was my victorian farmhouse living room, where the company began. That room was 10' high x 15' deep x 17' wide plus a bay wall adding another 3' depth with 45° clipped corners. It also had a door in each wall exce... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - point taken. Sealed box bass is more phase correct. I like it too. The brutally low impedance of the CS5 deep bass might be ameliorated by a separate amp for the bottom end. Also there is the matter of those huge analog bucket brigade ti... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - Please note that I have not heard the 7.2. I am relaying insider remarks from those who lived with the products, the process of evolution, the politics of markets and the necessary contraction of the company after Jim's death. I have also e... | |
| Thiel Owners Good points unsound. Amps from the same manufacturer often have differing goals and topologies and do not perform similarly. Thiel speakers got progressively more demanding - I guess the 5 bass was worst, but the earlier speakers were more benign,... | |
| Thiel Owners Ish - TAD makes great speakers, thoroughly engineered with world-class materials, at very high prices. The have a strong following in pro and audiophile worlds. I was very impressed with the ones I heard.However, they are neither time nor phase co... | |
| Thiel Owners Good dealers are a treasure! That world is generally fading in the rear-view mirror of Crutchfield, Amazon, ebay and so forth. I bet you will love the 2.4SS (just playing-whatever it will be called). Now, back to amps. As you know, my reference am... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding "other similar speakers" - they are very few indeed. The rigors are far greater and the results far more perilous than ordinary solutions. A company seeking to "make it" financially would not go there - to phase and time coherence. Vande... | |
| Thiel Owners Add: tight driver screws make a surprising amount of difference in resolution. |