Thiel Owners

@yyzsantabarbara, The latest Krell’s unlike most of the earlier Dan D’Agostino era separates models are no longer spec’d into 2 Ohms. The newest Krell’s like the original models have returned to forced fan cooling. Something I personally don’t care for. I’ll hazard an assumption that at 2 Ohms those Coda Class A specs can be reduced to 25% of their 8 Ohm Class A rating.

@yyzsantabarbara  I completely agree about Luxman being kind of too warmish and meaty.I 've heard the the M900-C900 combo several times and was never blowned away.Gryphon integrated are much more fun, it's very dynamic, transparent, fast, huge slam and still organic and never muddy.It will not cost you anything to just go for an audition and see if you like the house sound and compare to the gear you already know.

@thieliste I appreciate your feedback. I will give it a try since it is so easy for me being local. I do not want an integrated since my system positioning is setup for separates. I wanted a cleared path from my speakers to my ears. I am very happy with what I have done to facilitate this in a small room. I will check out their dedicated amps instead.

I just did some quick looking at the Gryphon amps and they seem like competitors to the USA made CODA #16.

I am currently listening to Santana’s - The Woodstock Experience and while it sounds very good and I am bopping along. I would like more power to really feel that percussion.

@unsound you are correct about the 25% reduction at 2 Ohms. I asked them since you mentioned it before. I am not a big Class A guy. Whatever gets me to great sound will work, Class A, AB, D, etc..

@yyzsantabarbara  Ok well if you are not considering integrated forget about Gryphon, the separates are too expensive for Thiel owners IMO.Only Diablo 120 or 300 is worth considering for CS 3.7s owners.

This journey I am talking with the CS3.7 is hitting rough patch after rough patch. It is not really bugging me though, a little interesting actually. Learning a ton of stuff about audio. My background is as an expert listener of music. :)

Today I did the REW software measurements of the 2 speakers. The new issue is that the Sound Pressure Level graph of my LEFT and RIGHT speaker are not identical. There is sufficient divergence between the L and R to indicate that something is wrong. This divergence occurs at 1K level. I got this feedback from the Audio Engineer who analyzed the data.

So I am going to learn how to interpret the REW software correctly and measure my KEF LS50s myself to eliminate the very new Benchmark gear as the culprit. I am almost 100% certain this less than 6 month old brand new Benchmark gear is flawless.

I have an idea what the issue is but will not speculate here until I speak with Rob Gillum tomorrow morning. If my hypothesis is correct it will cost me some funds to fix it.

I should note that both COAX drivers are in phase now and to my ears the system sounds great. However, I cannot move forward with the DRC until the SPL graphs are almost identical.

BTW - I was just playing The Boy’s Doin’ It - Hugh Masekela. That sounds so good on the CS3.7