Thiel Owners

dsper

Nice score! on the V3 DAC. Thank You for the follow up. Like beetlemania, I too, own AYRE Acoustics gear. I can attest to higher quality sources bringing out the loudspeaker's attributes.
Keep me posted as you massage the V3 into your room/system.

Happy Listening!

shaundevuk

Tom Thiel and beetlemania worked together on upgrading
beetle's 2.4se speakers so you might contact them if you 
are or would be concidering working on your speakers ,
again .

tonywinga

PM sent.   Happy Listening!

Hi Guys - I'll swing back and answer some loose threads as I find time. Last night I locked the door on my vacated Middle Crossing shop and studio. The building was sold and I closed shop on very short notice, selling 30 tons of wood and some tools and equipment, and storing way too much stuff for further preparation for sale later this summer. Big trip. Looking forward to a simpler life focused around musical instruments and audio. Still a long way to go before the external premises are clear and the excess is sold. Then there's the challenge of finding new space - real estate is extremely thin here in this small, safe, rural New England town where everyone from the city with sufficient means seems to want to relocate. Challenges keep us young, right?

cargen - you speculated about using some Thiel PXOs on other subwoofers. Here are my thoughts. Thiel's passive crossover matches the characteristics of the two speakers (sub and main), providing real,engineered rolloff slopes just like the subs were in the full-range speaker. They work very well for that intended use and in the case of the 5-channel PXO5, all the channels are integrated with the low bass. So using PXOs with different drivers with different characteristics than specified by their design would not work well. The magic is that a real crossover is provided because the characteristics of the woofer and main speaker are known and taken into account.