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| Thiel Owners I never got the accolades given to the Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions" album when I listened to it with all the other semi-decent systems I had. With the CS3.7 I get this album. Rather brilliant recording on the 3.7's. | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Congrats. I was going back and reading this thread starting where I join in with my drama. I had remembered that someone who actually owned the 3.7 and 2 x AHB2's AND was a classical musician said that the single AHB2 was preferred over... | |
| Thiel Owners @vair68robert That is something to consider since I already have a speaker repair tech available to help me now. 1) I have to fix the broken thread on the LEFT speaker frame for one of the screws. I have repair kit being shipped for that. Hopefu... | |
| Thiel Owners I was about to buy a second AHB2 last night on USAudiomart, but my PayPal was not setup the way I wanted. It will be tempting in 2 business days once my account is adjusted. Smarter move maybe be to pay a little more and do a home trial.One thing ... | |
| Integrated amp -- Pass Labs vs Luxman vs McIntosh The new CODA integrated I believe has similar tech as the CODA #8 amp that lot of people are raving about. You should check them out since I think they are giving you a lot bang for the buck. The PASS guy(s) and CODA guy(s) came from the same comp... | |
| 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... |