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| Thiel Owners Prof - thank you for your appreciation. The "live with" factor was an integral part of our designs.Jay - there are two periods of post Jim Thiel designs: the x.7s including the 2.7 and 1.7 and the MCS?.7 prototype. The physical CS2.7 was principal... | |
| Thiel Owners First, thanks for the jostle of other phase coherent brands. It also seems that some ultra-expensive European brands are honoring the time domain. (Reminder: engage brain before responding) Cheers.Regarding grille and grille frames - they, like ot... | |
| Thiel Owners Most of you have identified phase coherence as a necessary ingredient for "reality music", rather than the hi fi approximation. As far as I know, Vandersteen is the only maker other than Thiel who produces actual minimum phase speakers. Their bias... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - I agree. I don't know why Jim designed for such low system impedance. I can speculate that marginally lower distortion in the driver motor may be had via lower driver impedance . . . BUT all the amplification problems caused by low imped... | |
| Thiel Owners The drivers became more rigid, operating more smoothly over a wider band-pass and therefore the compensation networks became fewer and simpler. | |
| Thiel Owners Unsound - 2 ohm loads suck and amps give up. Thanks.Jay - The CS2 2 and 2.3 represent a major tide change. The 2 2 uses all discrete Thiel-designed x Vifa manufactured drivers. They are conventional as single-band (woofer, mid, tweeter), although ... | |
| Thiel Owners Jon - Thanks for the Bryston idea. Indeed Classe DR9 is polite and a little "tubey". Bryston might be a good counterbalance. Pops - I have never felt the need to better my CS2 2s. I'm looking forward to hearing what my XO upgrade work might bring ... | |
| Thiel Owners Check out "On Golden Pond" which was filmed on Squam. The beauty here is embedded in the mentality and actions of the community. | |
| Thiel Owners I live in New Hampshire where the White Mountains meet Lake Winnepesaukee and Squam. Small village life, pretty far from mainstreet USA. | |
| Thiel Owners Ron - thanks for the link. I hope to put a BHK in the voicing mix, probably the 250 to voice toward real-world amps that Resurrected Thiels might be used with. | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle - the CDs are being considered for bypasses in the woofer shaping circuits. As PolyPropylenes they are less expensive than the PolyStyrene RTXs which will provide more detail in the upper range. I am reaching for a level of finesse beyond w... | |
| Thiel Owners In a new twist of priorities, the SCS4 has come up on my radar.It shares a driver & XO basics with the PowerPoint, my first project. The SCS4 has a crossover for Thiel SmartSubs. Any interest out there in A'gon Land? | |
| Thiel Owners PW - I am all ears for as much detail as you care to share regarding your auditioning. The Crossover Upgrade Project is addressing all aspects of crossover performance. Jim's CS2.4 Signature Edition significantly upgraded tweeter feed capacitors, ... | |
| Thiel Owners Dsper - I have long experience with CJ and McC DNA - both are excellent in my opinion. Be careful not to confuse tonal color (CJ=dark) with a perceived problem (bright treble at high volume.) A sweeter preamp might make the problem less evident, a... | |
| Thiel Owners A real problem with Thiel speakers is how ruthlessly they reveal upstream problems. That's not to say they themselves might be the problem, but . . . A tell-tale is that if you can extract excellent or trouble-free performance from an excellent so... |