tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners Holco - I appreciate you sharing your work with us. I am getting Jantzen wax coils for direct comparison with ERSE foil. Both use the same 5-9+alloy and both are wound on sophisticated tensioning equipment. Both are bonded, but ERSE is resin and J... | |
| Thiel Owners Holco - since you performed multiple changes at the same time, I wish to ask a favor. Can you compare SQ with / without the drain wire? Thanks, Tom | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - the measurement that would likely reflect on what you are hearing is a radical zoom-in on the onset transient impetus. The shoulder will be cleaner / sharper. Similarly the top shoulder before decay will be cleaner and simpler. Deep know... | |
| Thiel Owners Rules - if an engineer with today's tools put his chops to it, the differences could probably be verified. It takes a lot of doing and my experience is that measurements only verify what we already learn through listening. I suspect the Klippel an... | |
| Thiel Owners Holco - thank you for the report. Regarding leakage - ideally you want none, but practically a small woofer enclosure leak doesn't do much. Are both channels the same? Of serious concern is if the woofer enclosure leaks into the midrange sub-enclo... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - the airflow technology addresses any and all airflow situations. A high-impact situation is port flow; in a sense that is low hanging fruit. There are many other situations that apply to all speakers. I am looking at back-wave implication... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - I have heard A-B comparisons only with Tannoy speakers in a good large room with decent sources. These demos were professional, not high-fi. I would not say there was any particularly tangible imaging involved. What everyone including mys... | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - patents are in the works, so no substantive news yet. I am beta-developing the technology using the CS1.6 as my test mule. The 1.6 / 1.7 slotted port is unusual in its airflow dynamics. Ports care where they are placed in their enclosures... | |
| Thiel Owners Jim - please keep us apprised of how the 2.3s do for you. The original 2.3 coax was the pioneer coax. Do you know when its upgrade happened?My original prototype Brazilian Rosewood O2s from 1976 we given to our parents as an early appreciation gif... | |
| Thiel Owners tomic601 - I would be most appreciative to learn the nature of the 2.3 upgrades. Beetlemania and I are working on the 2.4 and I have heard rumors that some folks have plugged in 2.4 drivers and XO to the 2.3 cabinet. If you have first-hand informa... | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - I have not yet made serious direct comparisons, but the two driver scenarios both have trade-offs. The 3.6 vertical stack makes the listener vertical ear position more critical, the constructive and destructive lobing affects the frequency ... | |
| Thiel Owners Pops - It's interesting that the CS6 has not come up in conversation or as an upgrade candidate. I learned that there was an internally designated CS6.1 with an upgraded midrange (?) and XO. Rob might know what you have. And I, of course, would be... | |
| Thiel Owners Ken - The CS5i is for Improved. The 3 bass drivers were re-engineered and the two low woofers were loaded with a central plug rather than damping mats. Crossover changes also smoothed things out in the lower midrange and reduced the upper frequenc... | |
| Thiel Owners JA - I want to express my appreciation for the group you have assembled here and its productive and cooperative form of engagement. Life is an interesting journey indeed and some gathering of energy such as here can change its course. As most peop... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm loving the enthusiasm I'm hearing from you both. Beetle - indeed there are great expensive drivers and some including Vandy who took Jim's lead in using copper motor shunts. Jim invented the solution on first principles and only when applying ... |