Thiel Owners

thoft - completely different, higher order, reversed polarity tweeter. I'd love to see time domain plots.

prof

Thank You for sharing the review. I can remember reading that review in 1999. Those were the days for Audio Press. Do you have your amps set to 8,4, or 2 Ohm taps?

Happy Listening!

Happy Friday! All

I jumped the gun and decided to contact AccurateSound.ca to do the DRC from my ROON based music (not my tuner or SACD player). My speakers have 2 brand new COAX drivers with less than 10 hours burn-in, I was told 200 is needed. So far, with these new drivers, my system has sounded the best. Which makes sense after fixing all the damaged driver, wring, and air leak issues. So I decided to jump the gun and see what Mitch Barnett could do with system in it’s current form.

I sent him the measurements that he needed and a few hours later he came back with the first of 6 Convolution filters. This is a computer zip file that gets loaded onto the ROON server to act as an software equalizer before my digital data hits the DAC. The goal is to create a sound curve that is optimized for my room and sitting position.

I have a big speaker in a small room and I sit slightly to the left side of the sweet spot. Mitch created a filter using the Audiolense software (he also works with Accurate, but not in my case).

The first filter he sent me was jaw dropingly great. I was floored how perfect the sound was. I am listening to a bunch of different music to come up with ideas for the other 5 filters, but really having a tough time figuring out what needs improvement. I suggested another filter with a bit more bass. He also suggested something that fits the Harman target curve. We will figure some new ones on Monday.

I am currently listening to Santana’s Woodstock recording. I listened to it at a dealer on Wednesday. It was on a $32K Paradigm Persona 9H speaker + Mark Levinson gear. The bass was way more powerful (and incredible) than what I have with the CS3.7. However, there is no contest on the COAX vs the Be drivers on the 9H. I think the 9H was not setup well in the room, because I have heard the 3F and 5F sound better than this 9H demo, but nevertheless I love what I am hearing today with the CS3.7.

This office system I have is now perfect.
https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/7605

prof - I've settled on VTL tube amps versus any solid state amp I've had on the 3.5's, for the very reasons you cite.  I had an ARC D90 when I first bought the 3.5's and liked it very much, except it's soundstaging was nowhere.  I tried CJ solid state, and liked it .... had some "rounding" similar to tubes, but sounded "hollow" compared to the tubes.  The only transistor amp I've had driving the Thiels that sounded good was the old Amber Series 70 amplifier.  I agree with you, ultimate detail does not win over ultimate musicality in my book.