Thiel Owners

I did a new upgrade for my Qobuz and Tidal streaming.I took my fanless Intel NUC from my headphone rig and installed Roon Rock on it and added an Sbooster MKll power supply to power the NUC and some audiophile grade ethernet cables.The result is absolutely phenomenal, before i used to run Roon from my desktop PC and the sound was not so great.This streaming upgrade is not very costly and will make you very happy.

tomthiel

Thank You for the follow up to woodysticks' query. Very interesting about the correlation between a 3.5 vs. 2.2 mid-driver.

Happy Listening!

JA - the upper crosspoint is the same 3kHz with very similar tweeter low rolloffs. The principal problem comes from the lower crosspoints: CS2.2 @ 800Hz, and the CS3.5 a full octive lower at 400Hz. The driver is asked to move a lot more air with longer excursions at lower frequencies. But, as I said, there have been no failures and it works well until we get an optimized solution.

Anyone heard of a fostex driver thats similar?

Woody - the problem is that first order rolloffs engage the driver for 7+ octaves and Jim's designs control any anomalies via circuitry within that broad range. So, you can find many similar drivers, but re-engineered crossover circuits are required to replicate the original close-tolerance performance.