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| Thiel Owners Not sure if serial numbers for all Thiel models are of interest here, but I have the following pairs: CS 2 2s: 7599,7600 and 3.7s 131,132. I am the original owner of the 2 2s and (probably) the third owner of the 3.7s. | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks, Tom. I’ve never had an opportunity to listen to DR-series Classé amps. I think my first Classé amps were the first post-DR generation. They tilted to a warm sound. Maybe that agrees with your comments.My current-generation CT-2300 has a mu... | |
| Thiel Owners Hope everyone had a fine Thanksgiving (for all those here who celebrated that day yesterday or at all). ... Here's another back story question: Early on, Thiel and Classé Audio seemed to have a close, if informal, relation in marketing and in-hous... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel Thanks for the counter narrative on the TAD reference speakers. Very interesting. The Hales line was perhaps(?) another example of a faux coherent speaker line. Their cabinets featured concrete baffles that were sloped similarly to Thiel... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof I too am sorry for your setback and wish you a thorough recovery.I would add Technical Audio Devices (TAD) Reference Series as another product line whose design shares many of the same goals with Thiel but with a cost-no-object market strate... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel: Thanks for your replies to my questions back on 8-24. Sorry for this delayed follow-up, life is keeping my busy these days. I’m by no means an expert on analog delay, having only read an article you can find by searching for ‘boss talk:... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, I have serial No. -4 of the SW1, now in mothballs. I'll probably put it up for sale at some point. This is the prototype that Jim used to demo the SW1 at audio shows until the SS2 model was released. I bought it from a former employee (or con... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel I’m a little late, but welcome and thanks for your valuable and insightful comments.I like Thiel's augment mode where the crossover to the woofer is first order and only the subwoofer is higher order. … I use a stereo pair of Thiel Smar... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof oopsFinally, a team of audio pros working with JLA f112's and Thiel CS3.7s chose 100 Hz in this example, http://www.soundoctor.com/studio/. Actually, these guys chose 80 Hz, not 100. It seems that 80 Hz is the default choice for crossover fr... | |
| Thiel Owners @prof Congratulations on your new gear. I think you'll like the improvements. You called yourself a sub newb in an earlier post, but IMO, your previous comments suggest you understand the principles just fine. So dive in and have fun.My impression... | |
| Thiel Owners I forgot to mention what was probably the key feature in favor of the SI-1 for me. It has fully balanced circuitry, not just balanced inputs and outputs. The only other active crossover I found with this feature is a particular variant in the Marc... | |
| Thiel Owners Prof wrote: If using a first order crossover with the sub were about maintaining time/phase coherence, I’m not going to have that anyway. The subs will have some delay, and will be placed behind the speakers, hence time delay. I could ideally get ... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks, @profJim Thiel's concept for the SmartSub line and the crossovers that go with it was to save the end user from having to get into the weeds learning how to integrate successfully. He also wanted to advance the state-of-the-art for sub int... | |
| Thiel Owners Here come some long-delayed replies to several points raised by Prof on 12/9 in his response to my original post to this thread. First, a correction:I wrote on 12/9: The [Thiel] SI-1 uses first-order crossovers; the [JL Audio] CR-1 uses 4th-order... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for your welcome, jafant, and for your reply, Prof.I have some deadlines looming and a family member going through some serious medical issues, so I’ll have to limit my time here. I’ll try to respond to your queries a bit at a time.My syst... |