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12-11-02
Wow!!! Jond
12-11-02
Small comfort, but from my experience, ht will repair your i ... Drubin
12-11-02
Zaikesman: so sorry to hear of the problems and i hope it a ... Cwlondon
12-11-02
When it rains it pours. sorry to hear of your plight. as you ... Unsound
12-11-02
Holy cow zaikes! reminds me of the time i fused all the out ... Rockvirgo
12-11-02
Take it easy zaikes, after doing this for 30 yrs i've had si ... Captpenny
12-11-02
Zaikesman, sorry to hear that you have more problems than ju ... Maxgain
12-11-02
Regarding your statement about the right honorable gentleman ... Onhwy61
12-11-02
Yeah, but it don't exactly take tons of insight to figure ou ... Zaikesman
12-11-02
Man oh man. i've had a bass radiator on a pair of thiels co ... Mezmo
12-11-02
Hey lotts my hero, nott! Rphsvc
12-11-02
Zaikes, hang in there! i went for 8 months without my prima ... Ozfly
12-11-02
Gosh, looks like i have it easy. why is it i suspect that b ... Zaikesman
12-11-02
The bose and jvc owners have approximately the warranty peri ... Tobias
12-11-02
Well, zaikes of course we all feel for you. my preamp went b ... Tubemiser
12-11-02
From what i understand, npr can damage your hearing. it is ... Stehno
12-11-02
It could be worse. i once read a post from a fella with a n ... Holzhauer
12-11-02
This is one reason i have 3 systems in my house, this way at ... Paulg805
12-11-02
Boy do i feel your pain! reminds me of the time i was insta ... Kinsekd
12-11-02
I've certainly had component, wire, and other misc problems ... Garfish
12-11-02
Hey zaikesman ... perhaps if you short out and fry your powe ... Seandtaylor99
12-11-02
Hey, but you still have your health!! unless you've elect ... Mattybumpkin
12-11-02
Y'know, when i posted this i didn't expect so many similar t ... Zaikesman
12-11-02
I'm very liberal myself, but i guess i'm sort of surprised w ... Thedautch
12-11-02
Hey, i'm always surprised by how many of us seem to be basic ... Zaikesman
12-11-02
Thedautch - where do you think all the money for those tax c ... Kinsekd
12-11-02
Fortunately, i have never had one of "those" eveni ... Hifiho
12-11-02
I have never belonged to any politcal party. Unsound
12-11-02
Look at the bright side, no one got hurt, right? i acquired ... Jeffloistarca
12-12-02
Baal the audio god requires more sacrifice from your wallet. ... Agnes3
12-12-02
Sounds like z has a pain in the ass to deal with and jeff ha ... Sean
12-12-02
Or deaf. :-) Zaikesman
12-12-02
What was that z ? i can't hear you over the ringing in my e ... Sean
12-12-02
One spot of good news - i think i found a good entire spare ... Zaikesman
12-12-02
Zaikesman, you could plug those guitar amps into cryo'd outl ... Maxgain
12-12-02
Thedautch & zaikesman - i couldn't help but chime in here o ... Slipknot1
12-13-02
Maxgain - although i'm partial to my vintage amps (guitar-wi ... Zaikesman
12-13-02
Zaikesman- i am by profession a librarian and an it person. ... Slipknot1
12-13-02
Slipknot--i know. i work in the hall of the states, right n ... Thedautch
12-14-02
What do you guys hear about hollings and the riaa and their ... Zaikesman
12-14-02
Zaikesman--short answer: yes! long answer: far more than an ... Thedautch
12-15-02
Um, getting back to my speaker... i removed the silent woof ... Zaikesman
12-19-02
Well, this about seals it - the impedance of the affected sp ... Zaikesman
12-19-02
Sorry to hear about the fried crossover. hope you get it fi ... Seandtaylor99
12-19-02
Tell me about it - if my girlfriend's in the house, the cabl ... Zaikesman
12-19-02
I've come to the conclusion that daytime television is an in ... Seandtaylor99
12-19-02
Spoken like one who knows... :-) Zaikesman
12-19-02
I am very lucky to have never been unemployed. i did once h ... Seandtaylor99
12-19-02
Sherry at thiel has said that it probably is possible for me ... Zaikesman
12-19-02
Zaikesman, aren't your thiels recommended for use with amps ... Unsound
12-20-02
I don't know if thiel will look at it that way, unsound. i' ... Zaikesman
12-20-02
Zaikesman, perhaps saying nothing might be prudent untill th ... Unsound
12-20-02
Well, i was mum about the circumstances when i spoke to sher ... Zaikesman
12-20-02
Perhaps an independent evaluation of your amp might be in or ... Unsound
12-20-02
Btw, i'm not suggesting that you mislead the good people at ... Unsound
12-20-02
You thiel owners can thank me in part that your speakers don ... Maxgain
12-20-02
Maxgain, you may be surprised to know that thiel's latest of ... Unsound
12-21-02
You don't need an equalizer for a sealed box if it is done r ... Sean
12-21-02
Unsound, i might use the downtime to have amps modded anyway ... Zaikesman
12-21-02
Sean, i agree with you re: sealed boxes sans equalization an ... Unsound
12-21-02
Yes unsound i am suprised. it was just that they were talkin ... Maxgain
12-21-02
Maxgain, yes there was a 5 (and 5i), it didn't use an equali ... Unsound
12-22-02
Maxgain, thiel would seem to have learned much since those t ... Zaikesman
12-22-02
Zaikesman, i hope i can count on you to share what ever you ... Unsound
12-22-02
Well, that would depend on whether, if i see jt and get to a ... Zaikesman
12-22-02
Maybe you can leave it in your will? Unsound
01-04-03
Zaikesman, you ever get things working? Maxgain
01-04-03
Thanks for asking, maxgain. both i and the folks at thiel w ... Zaikesman
01-04-03
Z...go catch some live music this winter. you'll be respirit ... Subaruguru
01-05-03
Rest assured, i catch as much live music as i can year 'roun ... Zaikesman
03-31-03: Zaikesman
UPDATE: OK, here it is over four months after my speaker first went bad, and I'm finally back from Kentucky country with a supposedly fixed-up speaker (I haven't unpacked it yet, but of course it was tested by the factory before I left). It turned out to have *both* a bad woofer *and* a bad crossover, the former possibly a result of the latter. The rasping tweeter on the other side was swapped by me for the one in the dead speaker back when this all first happened, so I also got a new tweeter installed by the fatory.
As usual, Thiel service was great, and I got to take a factory tour, which I'll post about separately. I also found out that the problem with my 2.2's crossover is a common one involving an under-spec'ed resistor, and I'll make another new post alerting folks to that situation. Now I just have to make the resistor upgrade preemptively to the other speaker, and then get on with the business of re-breaking everything in again.
During the intervening time, I must say that I got very used to listening in mono (my amplification is monoblock, a necessity for this usage when you're talking tubes and only have one speaker available - a stereo tube amp cannot be run with one channel's output left unconnected to a speaker load). This is a little easier for me than for many of you, as I am a big listener to vintage 45's and mono LP's. I think I might actually wind up missing this, 'cause it does have its advantages, which I'll also post about in a separate new thread.
Anyway, after so many various delays in our being able to make this trip, my girlfriend and I did at least manage to turn it into a week-long vacation. Eastern and central Kentucky (Thiel is based in Lexington) have wonderful terrain, and the state maintains a particularly good network of large wilderness parks, many complete with extensive hiking trails, campsite facilities, and even several very nice (but inexpensive) park lodges. There are impressive gorges, mountain ranges, waterfalls, natural sandstone 'bridges', cliffs, caves, and other features of interest to visit, both in KY and in West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. Living in the DC area, I was already familiar with the better-known Blue Ridge and Shenandoah areas of the Appalachians, as well as the more distant Smokies of the Carolinas and Tennessee, but this area was new to me, and I will certainly be going back someday for more.
Of course, you know I scored my fair share of old vinyl in thrifts and fleas while I was there! And of special interest to sound freaks, we also visited what is billed as the world's largest all-wooden cathedral, the Buckhorn log church remotely situated in the small town of the same name. Built entirely of oak planks and beams (without even nails - all the joinery is wooden) in the rustic Scandinavian style by a wealthy transplanted New Yorker during the early 1900's, it has what looked to be about 40' high ceilings and contains a fairly large antique pipe organ moved from Philadelphia. We didn't get to hear the organ play, much less the choir sing - the church is unheated and doesn't open for regular use until later in the season - but talking and walking around inside the building it's clear this place has an amazing and unique acoustic. Too bad the man who admitted us told us when I asked him that no commercial recordings have ever been made there though.
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