Thiel Owners

I've made a point to have "Lincoln"-like friends to evaluate changes in my own system over the decades.  Changes I (and other audiophile friends) may be too caught up in the minutiae to make an unbiased evaluation.  I think half the reason the Lincolns are so useful is they're excited to hear 'real' hifi reproducing music that they can better focus and more enthusiastically assess, free from what they 'should' be hearing.

What does your experiment say to the common knowledge (?) that time/phase coherence can only be achieved using first order XOs when processing in the analog domain??

At TA I always cultivated “Lincolns” and their contribution was invaluable.
others here might supply more technical explanation of XO slopes; Here’s my layman’s take, IF a system creates a proper step response, it is phase/time coherent. Jim’s second order XOs in the 02/SCS series do create such steps, because he kept polarity positive and he used beaming of the largish woofer to good effect. It works whereas most 2nd order executions don’t. Nevertheless, there are more reactance and wider phase and impedance swings in the second order. First order is more ideal BUT 1st order requires much more sophisticated drivers. I am presently comparing 1st vs 2nd in the O2, which is of great interest to me. I’ll report findings. Marena and Lincoln will keep me honest.

Fun reading, thanks Tom!

gwgjr31
Which Thiel speakers do you currently own? Are you still running an ARC Ref3 pre-amp and Raysonic cd player? Cables/cords?
Happy Listening!

tomthiel
Thank You for the fun read. I hope that you move into a new space soon.
Happy Listening!