tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Ron - thanks for your encouragement. Our upgrades cover more ground than XO and bases. Of great interest is an entirely new set of technologies that orchestrate energy propagation from source siignal to laminar flow propagation in air. Collectivel... | |
| Thiel Owners The false bottom does more right than wrong. The 3.7 and possibly 2.7 use that arrangement, as did the 04/04a. Large value electrolytics turn up in notch filters in many models, including the 7.2 with 400uF in the upper midrange. As examples, th... | |
| Thiel Owners guy - All speakers benefit from outboard crossovers. That takes the XO out of a dirty, vibratory environment, and allows better inter-component field optimization due to added distance from the driver fields. Speakers like the CS7 with their XO o... | |
| Thiel Owners About Roger's room - I'm glad you guys got to experience it. We built it to demonstrate our ongoing work optimizing Thiel speakers and their partnering systems while minimizing the unknowns of a playback room. Much confusion and mis-direction come... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof - My knowledge is fairly peripheral and indirect; and those in the fray are pretty mum. General PTSD or some derivative. I had visited shortly before the sale, and it was very clear that a sale was necessary. I knew when Bob Brown, former exe... | |
| Thiel Owners 8’ distance was the minimum integration distance. It works fine, but ear-height /tilt becomes more critical when that close. | |
| Thiel Owners Distance is far tweeter to wall and back to near tweeter. 3’ from far tweets to wall is in range. Also rear wall treatment might be in order. Boundary reinforcement is often desired with Thiel’s bass tuning. Are these 3.5s? If so, you have the tu... | |
| Thiel Owners No simple answer, it all gets much more complex when supplementing the rear wave. Four to five feet behind the far tweeter separates the direct front wave from the reflected back wave by around 4 milliseconds which is enough to perceive the rear w... | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - setup is complex. Jim/kathy left installation to dealers with little support. Those who excelled at the nuances of setup sold the lion’s share of product. since bass is quite omnidirectional I first position for best bass. Since mid fre... | |
| Thiel Owners There are mixing engineers who swear by crossoverless speakers, usually 5” to 6.5” one-way sealed or open baffle . I was on such a project and couldn’t get my ears around the sound. On testing, their harmonic distortion was off the chart outside t... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - agreed to these concerns. We are talking about perhaps a degree or so in a speaker that is already back-heavy and also has adjustabliity in the legs to extend them farther out in front if necessary. Thank you as always for your thoughts. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - outboarding the XO produces significant improvement itself, plus it allows component orientation options independent of the field effects of the drivers, and larger capacitors. All good. Later Thiel speakers often had the XO in the botto... | |
| Thiel Owners Regarding Outriggers - Floor coupling is an important dimension for all speakers. Thiel’s outriggers broaden the base of support / footprint, with built-in adjustability for plumb and tilt. Their aesthetic matches later Thiel models nicely. Nice u... | |
| Thiel Owners devinplombier - no worries. I have consulted a variety of designers for feedback and input for our upgrade design approach and particulars. In this case we're re-balancing the SCS4 (as an option) for stand-mounting rather than bookshelf environmen... | |
| Thiel Owners In my fairly extensive wire and cable trials over the past few years, I found considerably more sonic variation between bi-wired cable and mono-wired cable. Since Thiel speakers were thoroughly engineered for single wire, that form represents the ... |