tomthiel
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| Thiel Owners An amp with zero loop feedback must be extraordinarily well designed to work for music. Feedback disturbs phase response. Ayre is addressing design from first principles and I would expect all their products to be very clean, especially in the tra... | |
| Thiel Owners Stereophile's measurement design is an example of what I believe to be a fundamental lack of understanding of the ear-brain and its response to whole-goods: that is sound with its tonal, spatial, transient and dynamic characteristics, to name a fe... | |
| Thiel Owners I believe that a major factor in the popularly-held fallacy that phase and time information don't matter or can be misrepresented in test design is that such measurement techniques are given undue validity by most, leading to most manufacturers im... | |
| Thiel Owners J, the hidden problem that arises with an amp that doesn't double-down to 2 ohm loads is that the distortion increases dramatically when driven into overload. That dirty signal is what toasts drivers, especially the delicate tweeter voice coil whi... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound, thanks for the leads. The SW1 in California has unworkable shipping costs and the SS1 doesn't match my 2-driver unit. Best fit is SS-2. Thanks again, T | |
| Thiel Owners Beetle, I am glad to be here. My hi-fi life has been fairly well buried until recently. Nice to find you guys.Regarding capacitor bypasses, we discovered in the 1970s what has now become fairly commonplace knowledge, that small value high-grade ca... | |
| Thiel Owners On another matter, I am looking to buy a Thiel SS2 ( or SW1) subwoofer for our non-profit village arts center. We mentor developing regional performers using better-than-expected sound equipment. I placed an Audiogon want-ad. If you know of anythi... | |
| Thiel Owners Cardas makes great cables. My hope is to supply subtle information that may not be obvious to all. Crossover networks can be very easily scrambled via changes with unintended consequences. Speaker cables are designed for unknown load characteristi... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, the hookup wire came from Straightwire, which is a price / purchasing convenience. The relevant particulars include the wire, the jacket and the twist, which trumps the source. | |
| Thiel Owners Thiel has worked with Madisound since the 1970s, so they know that we want unflavored, technically accurate caps and resistors. I went to them for advice for my PP rebuild and they recommended Mundorf as the "winner" in their customer experience. ... | |
| Thiel Owners It seems the site ate my detailed response.In summary, just be careful because you don't know what you don't know. Thiel (Lexington) parts selection was rigorous and knowledge-based. Don't assume you can get a whole-system improvement by throwing ... | |
| Thiel Owners I am not expert on what manufacturing moved to China and when; I have not been involved with the company since the mid 1990s. At that time the only off-shore components were some European electronic components. My general impression is that the hi... | |
| Thiel Owners sdecker et al, it is important to keep the cap values consistent with the original design. Judging by your description, the 1uF bypass caps were left in place and the main caps replaced with SAs, thus keeping the total paralleled capacitance corre... | |
| Thiel is officially closed!! I posted on the Thiel owners' forum that Rob Gillum has bought the Thiel service franchise and will be serving the needs of Thiel owners as his full-time occupation with the help of Gary Dayton and some other former operatives including myself. Pl... | |
| Thiel Owners Guys, it's official that Rob Gillum has bought the service business from the Nashville owners of Thiel Audio, who are officially closing. Rob needs a couple of weeks to transition. He will have a new phone number and email address which he will po... |