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| Thiel Owners In the case of my Revels the amps were very powerful, but I do understand your point about underpowered amps. | |
| Thiel Owners When I spoke to Rob Gillum about the robustness of the COAX he said that it was something that should last a very long time. However, he observed that most of the damaged COAX drivers occurred because people thought a $13K speaker can play as loud... | |
| Thiel Owners This same AHB2 conversation was had in another A'gon thread in 2018 where John Siau participated. I don't think the folks responding to him realized he was the amp designer.The vertical bi-amp will not work with the Thiel CS3.7 since it only has 1... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel When I get the AHB2 in mono would it be useful for me to use two 3 foot speaker cables instead of the two 6 foot cables? | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel Thanks for that explanation.@jafant I am listening to the MoFi version of Santana's Caravanserai and I am amazed to how good it is. Maybe my second best SACD disc now after DSOTM. There is no comparison with the SME version. The MoFi ha... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound Your comment ties in the what John Siau emailed me today.When ss amps clip, it’s sudden and ugly. With ss amps t’s best to keep far distance from the clipping point. John’s last comment in the conversation.Yes, it will work well in your... | |
| Thiel Owners The simple reason I like the Benchmark gear is because with this gear I experience the illusion that I am in the studio or audience during the performance. I think it is their SNR that makes this magic happen for me. That is also the reason I lik... | |
| Thiel Owners In a previous post, I described the 2008 COAX terminal connection backwards (not important).I just got off 2 email threads. 1) The Audio Engineer in Canada, Mitch Barnett, looked at the new graph I sent him and said we know for sure it is now the ... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound Thanks for the feedback.I was thinking that could be the case. What I did first was put my KEF LS50's back into my room and measure exactly as before. This measurement setup was done with the goal of removing the room as much as possible.... | |
| Thiel Owners This journey I am talking with the CS3.7 is hitting rough patch after rough patch. It is not really bugging me though, a little interesting actually. Learning a ton of stuff about audio. My background is as an expert listener of music. :)Today I d... | |
| Kef reference 3 @brownsfan The META I refer to is the new tech that KEF has developed and putting into the KEF LS50 META first. It will trickle up to the other lines. | |
| Thiel Owners @thieliste I appreciate your feedback. I will give it a try since it is so easy for me being local. I do not want an integrated since my system positioning is setup for separates. I wanted a cleared path from my speakers to my ears. I am very happ... | |
| Thiel Owners Great feedback. Some updates.1) Rory at Benchmark forwarded my email to John Siau, the amp designer. He has the Thiel CS3.7 specs from Stereophile measurements linked in the email. He is out now but I hope to hear from him once he gets back.2) I... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the feedback. I am not sure what musicality means but I do know that gear like the Luxman m900u have a softer presentation of the sound. Likely like the Gryphon but with the Gryphon having more slam. The USA distributer of Gryphon is lo... | |
| Thiel Owners @unsound Yes, I am paraphrasing his comments in my email with Benchmark. I am just crossing my T's and dotting my I's before I close the door on the mono AHB2.I have been looking around the net for alternative amps, if 2 x AHB2 is a non-starter, I... |