Thiel Owners

@tomt one recent development I am quite excited about is a German laser scanning machine for evaluation of drivers pistonic behavior- excellent Vandersteen video of two drivers side by side test results.... lots of out of phase trash in the pass band on the comparison driver. I mention this because I believe this is a key key way to move the art forward- we need more pistonic AND affordable drivers!!!!!
the scan costs $500

Tomic - we don't have that scan adapter, but it is indeed affordable. Thiel was always going for pistonic driver behavior and the wavy drivers take that way up. I have an associate who could make the wavy drivers in carbon at a real-world price. Wouldn't that be something?
JFant - Jim's rig was trashed. Rob got New Thiel's Klippel, which is very good stuff.

Tom autoclave cure ? How much does a 5” skin weigh ? What modulus fiber ? How very exciting

it astounds me that every speaker designer does not care about pistonic...

oh well

Tomic - my friend was an early entry for aerospace and aircraft parts. And he's committed to the Love of Music, and he really knows his stuff. That's about as firm as we are at this time.

There are lots of reasons to not care about pistonic diaphragms. They are extremely difficult and expensive and higher order slopes don't care all that much.

Tom
"Thiel was always going for pistonic driver behavior and the wavy drivers take that way up."

Did you make use of the Thiele/Small Parameters ?