jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| Thiel Owners I'd guess the 2.4 is the best in some ways. I've never heard them but it's the last Jim Thiel designed 3-way with an 8" woofer. I don't know if there's any hard and fast rule but there are definitely advantages to not having huge jumps in driver... | |
| Thiel Owners @anthonymoody I’ve got a couple of HT receivers that I’ve used to drive various speakers with and I thought they did fine. One is a Yamaha, one a Pioneer Elite. Both had list prices around $900. Receivers, at least some of them, have come a long w... | |
| Powered speaker pair for $200-$300? cyber Monday deal on JBL 305P - <$200/pair. Its predecessor the LSR305 was very popular. For under $300, powered speakers are the way to go unless you go used. You could probably go to a pawn shop and find an old rec... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm wondering if there are cases where what sounds like an amp problem is actually a preamp problem or impedence mismatch problem. I'm using Bryston preamps in both of my systems. In both cases I've run the systems with only a volume controlled ... | |
| Thiel Owners I think having products for home theater and also some very expensive, high margin products is a good idea. Home theater especially should be active and the crossovers should be digital. that would allow for user selectable crossover slopes whic... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm curious about the ultimate performance speaker box. There's no way I'd ever spend 50k or more on a pair of speakers but I wonder if there are other, far cheaper ways to build the ultimate box out of readily available materials. There was a c... | |
| Thiel Owners I'd guess the reason the 2.7 didn't get a Stereophile review was because Wes Phillips had stopped writing. He reviewed the 3.7 and I think bought them. He reviewed a lot of Thiels over the years. I think by the time the 2.7s came out he was in ... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof,I’d be interested in what is the best way to brace a cabinet as well. I believe Merlin embedded some metal bars in the baffle for this purpose. I’d think something that was deeper than it was wide would be more effective at combatting cabine... | |
| Thiel Owners I have an MCS-1 and 2 2s. I believe the MCS-1 has the same mid/tweeter as the 2.3. I used to use the MCS-1 when I had room for a 5.1 home theater in my basement. My impression after having lived with both for a while is that I preferred the sou... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel, my understanding is that the reduction in shrinkage is mainly due to the fiber. Is that correct? I've been wanting to build a madisound kit and make the baffle out of concrete. I have the concrete, a bag of glass fiber and some plast... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof, that is fun reading. I definitely agree that the 3.7s are not exceptionally hard to drive. They appreciate some power but I don't believe you need a megabuck amp to get a lot out of them. Maybe a huge solid state amp would make a little ... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof, pre-concentric driver Thiels have that same phase cancellation effect. If you're fairly close to them and move your head around vertically you'll notice huge shifts in sound. I still love my 2 2s, though. It's hard for me to imagine anyb... | |
| Thiel Owners As I've said in the past, I use a pair of Cambridge 840s with my 3.7s and I think they're completely adequate, at least at the moderate volumes I listen at. You'd pay in the 3-4k range for a pair. I know a guy who hangs around on audioasylum use... | |
| Thiel Owners @andy2, I've been wondering that myself. For those of us who mostly use digital playback I think the ultimate setup will use digital/software crossovers that can be switched to whatever you want. Heck, my 12 year old Velodyne sub has this option... | |
| Thiel Owners It is kind of a tragedy that the 2.7/3.7 coax isn't being produced any more. I've thought about it and it seems the theoretical ideal would be if Vandersteen would buy the Thiel name and produce a few models. Since it's a first order company as ... |