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| How best to shoe horn speakers into a room I usually consider: dispersion characteristics, space for driver integration, bass output. Haven’t had to consider dimensions, weight or volume output yet. | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Dave, at the risk of appearing petty my 3.5’s have a sensitivity of 88 dB, and my room volume is probably a bit larger than most. High volume levels in music is most often short term so it’s not really at all uncomfortable or unsafe. Still your... | |
| Thiel Owners ^please delete the first "not" in the second sentence. sorry | |
| Thiel Owners Hi David, please accept my apologies if I wasn't clear in my previous post. As for the Pass Lab users not using Pass Labs X amps instead of Pass Labs XA amps, every Thiel user I know that asked for guidance directly from Pass Labs has reported tha... | |
| Thiel Owners David, welcome! In answer to your question as to why more Thiel users don't use pure Class A amplification: cost. And heat.To my ears, though typically advantageous, Class A is not the only criterion of the many upon which an amplifier's sound is ... | |
| Not much discussion around MBL I've only heard them at a few different shows, where each time they played them too loudly. Only once did I think they might have been placed too far apart; with soundstage and imaging somewhat out of proportion and vague. Imaging might not be qui... | |
| Vandersteen Treo CT vs Mag 3.7i speakers IMHO, both are great choices, and ultimately it will just come down to personal preference. | |
| Tube Amplifier for Thiel I have no desire for tube amps with my Thiel's. | |
| What makes you build a system around an amplifier? Ideological vs. pragmatic? | |
| Thiel CS2 ^ The “MCS” is another stand mount Thiel speaker. | |
| Vandersteen IMHO, not enough to justify the price increase. YMMV! | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? johnk (OP) ..."He also was marketing product so had a bit of bias towards his own work."... | |
| Vandersteen 2wq with Mccormack dna .5 Need more power? | |
| Dunlavy Minimum Phase Mods ....It was rumored that many in the business found his regular numerous returns of out of acceptable spec parts annoying. | |
| Dunlavy Minimum Phase Mods Before I mislead you, he didn't say that exactly. Though he might(?!) have been implying it. Remember John Dunlavy was much about wave form and ergo time fidelity. In an article in Stereophile he confided that step response was his go to measureme... |