Thiel Owners

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 ?

George, yes we did. Jim was very mathematically oriented. The TS parameters were quite new when we began, and I doubt we would have tried speakers without them. Our first drivers were from Eminence and Long Engineering, whom we cajoled Into deriving the TSPs, which was a kick in the pants for them, a solid starting place for us, and the 01, 02 and O3s were unbelievable for their time due to hard , predictive engineering rather than progressive guesses, which was the order of the day.