jon_5912
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| Best speakers for $300/pr One thing to keep in mind, at that price there are frequently speakers that are produced in pretty high quantities. It's not too hard to find big discounts. Since people buying in this price range aren't particularly discerning usually, you may ... | |
| Help for a Greenhorn: Devialet Phantom Reactor vs. KEF LS50 powered vs. Audio Pro Drumfire When you look at a picture of the Devialet Phantom Reactor it is obvious that it is a form before function product. That doesn't mean it's bad. It's being marketed to a completely different crowd than the kef LS50 is, though. It's almost an app... | |
| Thiel Owners To me the Thiel sound is the sound that makes me forget about the sound. There's nothing about it that bothers me. I don't understand why. Maybe it's because of the first order phase correct crossover. There definitely aren't any frequency res... | |
| Thiel Owners @tom, the crossover is much steeper but the ATC mid is crossed over at 380 while the CS2.4 is at 800. Since it was created as a pro driver it was made for loud volume, reliability, temperature stability. | |
| Thiel Owners would I be right in saying that phase coherence means that the drivers are in phase with each other but not necessarily with the source? So if two drivers are 50 degrees out of phase with the source signal at a particular frequency we say they're... | |
| Thiel Owners The ATC actives use some kind of active phase compensation to align the drivers at the crossover frequencies. I don't think they go to the trouble Thiel did to keep time alignment throughout. What big active ATCs have that little else can match ... | |
| Thiel Owners My ATC 110s have a 3" midrange that will play incredibly loudly. it's the same midrange that is in the SCM 300 ASL that will do 121 db continuously. I doubt any Wilson product can touch that. The crossover to the woofer is 380hz. The midrange ... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm with prof on cables. In my experience they make such a small difference compared to other things that I've always considered them of negligible interest. I don't really consider myself an audiophile and I'm at a very unaudiophile stage of li... | |
| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? It's an unanswerable question but I've had my Thiel 3.7s for almost 7 years and I don't have any criticisms. There's nothing about them that is bothering me. It's possible that I could at some point become unhappy with them but I can't guess why. | |
| What Characteristic Strikes You First About Un-amplified Music? I've certainly found that a lot of instruments don't image that well live. I assume it's because they are directional so the way they are held can result in the sound beaming in various directions, bouncing off boundaries making it hard to tell w... | |
| speakers with active bass I'd be interested to know if there's anyone who sincerely believes that passive bass is better. What would the argument be? I would certainly prefer active bass in any 3-way. | |
| Thiel Owners This situation is what makes people watching in audio so amusing. There is real ambiguity in that there are differences that can be heard but not easily measured. There are also charlatans taking advantage of this by making BS claims and trying ... | |
| Thiel Owners @Tomthiel, I'm curious about the nature of your commune. I spent much of my childhood in a very religious commune and my parents still live there. From what I've read I think communes were fairly common for a while but I don't have any perspecti... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm listening to Bill Evans Piano Player after having listened to CD10 of the Bach Recordings box set I got last year. There's certainly an ember alive here. I think of high end audio as a sort of musical tourism. We can hear an incredible vari... | |
| Taming bright Thiels I know this thread is ancient but I'm having a hard time letting the claim that the 2.2s are bright go. They aren't remotely bright. I'm having a hard time believing that anyone, ever, thought they had an overly bright character. Compared to wh... |