Thiel Owners

Tom, i really appreciate your candor and transparency. A good reason to take another look at the 5i series. Your ideas about the Renaissance 3.5 are very much in line with my explorations, using triamps and dsp to test the range of possibilities. The demands on an amplifier with biamping or triamping a driver directly is so much easier and the availability of affordable good amps in the 100 w range is abundant. I concur that with minor eq shaping, a xo becomes unnecessary and the frequency range, distortion and phase response are so much improved. I would like to hear your thoughts about the directivity and what can be improved about that? 

Tom I appreciate the back story on the cs 5 ironically As you know they used a concrete baffle on the cs7 so Jim must have realized that the direction you wanted to go with the baffles back then was the superior way to go. 

tomthiel
Thank You for a history perspective on the CS5 loudspeaker.Hope that you are well this Summer day and having fun researching / tweaking for the XO sound.

Happy Listening!

Getting good, deep bass in a room is always complicated.

A smaller (higher -3 dB) speaker can often sound much better in many rooms.  20-40 Hz are possible from even 6.5" drivers, but of course, not at concert levels.

Room treatments should always be considered among your first choices in getting good bass.  Lowering the mid-treble energy in the room plus controlling room modes can transform speakers into sounding much larger.

Best,

E