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| Thiel Owners prof - I just visited a pair of Brazilian Rosewood O2s that I inherited from my dad's estate. When I get them here from Virginia, I'll draw the schematics and conjure an upgrade. The O2 was before we discovered 6-9s wire or film caps. Simple secon... | |
| Thiel Owners Memory is an odd thing . . . often spotty and sometimes inaccurate on details, but very true to the major themes, people and events. I am appreciating the opportunity to re-access these memories from a very difficult and productive period of my li... | |
| Thiel Owners prof - there's always more. Our early years needed more rapid growth than we could produce. Our Canadian solution came with Russ Heinl, a Canadian distributor with good connections, knowledge and support. Canada had introduced tariffs for US goods... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding higher driver-count coherent sources . . . it is indeed a very complex problem. The way Thiel approached phase coherence was for each driver to execute its design-ultimate slope such that when summed with the other interacting drivers, t... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding amp testing: the manufacturer knows good and well how their amp works into a 2 ohm load. In the days of brick and mortar dealers, the dealer would know or could easily find out. John Atkinson's Stereophile and other technical lab tests a... | |
| Thiel Owners andy - thank you for your contributions. Indeed you are on it with "first order filter. It communicates the heart and emotion of the music better."This communication is not some magic of technical accomplishment, and in fact it is one side of the... | |
| Thiel Owners silvanik - fantastic indeed and we are most interested in your results. Sonic Craft has New Old Stock Mills MRAs.FYI: all the copper in your 3.6s is 4-9s or better. Your solder is silver x tin, so it needs high temperature. The yellow bypasses are... | |
| Thiel Owners beetle - point taken, many amps are not rated to 2 ohms, so we don't know their capability. It would be very instructive if you could learn the 2 ohm behavior of your Ayre amp so that we can learn from your experience. I have heard only praise of ... | |
| Thiel Owners dancast - regarding the PS Audio M770s, the PS spec states that amp to be stable into 2 ohms for musical peaks. That fact would disrecommend its use for main stereo use. The lion's share of dis-satisfaction with Thiel products is the low impedance... | |
| Thiel Owners The CD's on Dana's site are from the original masters from the same plant in Richmond Indiana, now under different ownership, but still top quality. | |
| Thiel Owners Larry, I see that Amazon "manufacturers this product to order". I would not recommend that option. We manufactured the original CD at Sanyo USA (best of form) on the late night shift for best quality. I believe that original version is what is on ... | |
| Thiel Owners Death and Rebirth lives at the center of life - at the heart of understanding. Finding grace in that process ranks as a central challenge and measure of our consciousness. I see music as a key unlocking access to that path. I beg your permission t... | |
| Thiel Owners Jon - tube amps generally have transformer-coupled outputs with different winding taps for different impedance loads. The same power capacity (1040 joules) is matched to the chosen load via the transformer tap. Some tube amps add a 2-ohm tap, whic... | |
| Thiel Owners Jay - the Classe amps tell a long story. The tech is in some kind of trouble and still has some of my gear. Classe had recapped one DR9 a year ago. The new guy replaced and bypassed some signal path caps to match our plan for the second DR9. We al... | |
| Thiel Owners Pardon me Jay, I neglected to mention that phase characteristics in the speaker also influence amp performance. Phase lead and lag illustrate reactive characteristics of the load, which are far more difficult for an amp to drive than a purely resi... |