Thiel Owners
andy - I don't see any claims for the Meadowlark, nor technical specs or lab reviews. Good reputation, but I can't comment on their coherence. Green Mountain has tons of claims and an approach that seeks coherence. There is a Stereophile review that demonstrates not really achieving what they claim. The impulse response is clearly not time-aligned and not integrated with best tonal response listening height. The designer's review reply side-steps the issues. I would call it a technically deficient attempt. I haven't heard them. |
Tom, Stereophile reviewed and measured the Meadowlark Shearwater speakers. 2nd page of measurements (and showing time coherence) here: https://www.stereophile.com/content/meadowlark-hotrod-shearwater-loudspeaker-measurements-part-2 I had listened to many Meadowlark speakers and had the larger Meadowlark Blue Herons in my room for quite a while. They wounded warm, airy, lush and spacious. But I never found the Meadowlark transmission bass design to be completely successful to my ear. And as I've mentioned before, the Meadowlarks didn't have the type of concentric mid/tweeter design etc like the Thiels, and suffered a sort of suck-out phase cancellation effect with vertical movement of the listener, giving the tone and imaging a sort of "shifty" quality if one moved about. I owned small stand mounted Meadowlark monitors for quite a while and though somewhat coloured, I really enjoyed the heck out of 'em. The disappeared and imaged like the bejeesus! Sold them and still kind of miss them. |
