Thiel Owners

Prof - I noted in their website talk that they are using high-order DSP filters, which do not produce phase coherence, although all the talk implies that they do.

In my music production consulting work, I routinely picked out edits in mixes by the pre and post ringing of high-order DSP filters, while listening through (coherent) CS2.2s. The producer would invariably respond that "you can't hear that", usually because of his $7 figure equipment investment and grammy awards. But I and my client could independently spot the edits and other anomalies by separately noting time-code.

I don't claim to know what Meadowlark is doing. The review I found of the Swift shows wildly ranging impedance and phase swings - but it is time-coherent. The Shearwater qualifies as a T/P coherent design.

@holco 

Curious why you picked the Rhymthmic. If I ever decided to add subs I would almost certainly go with Vandersteens or used Thiels, so curious to know your rationale.

But I don’t feel the need. My old Vandersteens had some audible output into the mid 20 cycles whereas the 2.4s have nothing below 30 yet I’ve only noticed the difference on a single song (organ tones).

With dsp any xo can be linearized with zero phase at the xo area though with ringing often hidden in the noise level.