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| Phono Preamps with "balls" ? Parasound...their phono-preamps have all the ability to "get loud" no matter what cartridge you're using. If you want to go the tube route, Audio Research. I'm using a vintage PH-3 and it makes my Denon 103r MC cartridge absolutely sing. I can ... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Happy Easter to you & yours as well!Just started playing the entire Beatles catalog from The Beatles Limited Edition USB Box Set, hi-res FLAC files ripped to my Bluesound Vault 2. Easy marathon listening session... | |
| Tube and SS pairs In my case, I ended up with a tube pre- & SS amp because of my speakers, Thiel CS 3.5’s. When I first got the Thiels (I’m the second owner), I was driving them with a SS integrated. With it, the Thiels were ruthlessly revealing...poorly record... | |
| Baltimore MD Hello all!Reviving this thread..just to see who lives in Baltimore and the surrounding counties. erhaps we can begin/continue with a simple meeting & greet at a pub, bar or restaurant just to get together any gauge any interest?I live in the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello fellow Thiel owners & fans!Just wanted to update you on the repair of my 3.5's Electronic Bass EQ at Coherent Source Services.As you may remember, I began to get some intermittent "crackling" coming out of my system right around late Jan... | |
| Thiel CS3 Without The EQ Hello all!I have a pair of 3.5's that I use in my main system...absolutely love them. I have always used them with the Electronic Bass Equalizer, figuring that if Jim Thiel designed it to be used with the speakers, who was I to argue? ;^)Anyway,... | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! @jon1 -Uh, ok. First off, you don’t know me...so, please don’t assume any “lack of integrity” in my being simply because I like the Masters section in my Tidal subscription. Second, you assume that I have given in to some monopoly, but how? Again,... | |
| Connection Options for ARC LS-7 to D240 Mk.II @almarg - Al, thanks as always for your technical, but easy to understand, commentary. I was wondering if there was any advantage to the circuitry between the two input sections that gained me some kind of advantage; your explanation clearly sh... | |
| Connection Options for ARC LS-7 to D240 Mk.II Hello, all!So, no advantage in using the XLR connection versus RCA when both are still unbalanced cables. Kinda' figured this, but still nice to hear confirmation from some fellow audiophiles...Thanks!Arvin | |
| MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote! I vote "Yes" for MQA: on Tidal, I find that most of the MQA versions of albums/titles sound better than the non-MQA versions to my ears. And, Yes again, that I view MQA as a way to get better sound from streaming, but not as a end-all format tha... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel - Wow...what an incredible story! This is what a lot of us audiophiles/geeks love to hear...the why & how that goes behind the scenes. Now I know why there is some shared “architecture” between the CS6 & the 3.7. However, the ide... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel - Hi, Tom! In another Thiel related thread, you offered to share your take on why there wasn’t a CS4-series speaker. Wondering if you wouldn’t mind sharing that story here?Thanks again for enriching these discussions!Arvin | |
| Thiel Customer Service - New ownership is terrible!!! - WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS COMPANY ? Hello all,I have to agree with all the above points. After I acquired my 3.5’s, I suddenly became aware of the true definition of revealing. Thru the Thiels, poorly recorded materials sounded almost unbearable! Even though my integrated at the tim... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello all!Today, I received the latest addition to my system, an Audio Research PH-3 phono pre-amp. The reason I’m bringing this up is that, ever since I got my Thiel 3.5’s this past November, my system has evolved a lot, all in an effort to extra... | |
| Thiel speaker model range Hello Tom!As always...tremendous info from someone who truly was "there"!I, for one, would love to know why there isn't a CS4-series. Also, as the owner of a pair of 3.5's, was it the only model to feature the Electronic Bass Module and if so, wh... |