Thiel Owners

bas79,

I agree with your observation wholeheartedly. Thats why I decided to keep them. I use Pass Labs X600.5 and XA 200.5.

Tom Thiel has recently acquired these monsteres and hope he will be offing a crossover upgrade for these spesakers. Also wiring and binding post. 

I'm going to design a base to fit the CS 7.2 to do them justice. 

So with some additional upgrades they will be an incredible value. 

bas79

Your ears do not deceive. The DAW speaker starts to compete with modern Thiel Audio loudspeakers. To my ears, Wilson Audio model Alexx V($135K)  will crush any Thiel speaker at a substantial price-point. This is a Testament from Jim's vision.

Happy Listening!

Happy New Year! All

Since things are quiet and I've been patiently waiting for Clarity Capacitors (1 year) to release their Purity series so I could finish the mid/tweeter crossover upgrade I thought I'd update the images on the virtual systems page under Thiel ( almost the last one ) .  

While waiting and being bored since it's the winter rainy season I tried many toe-in positions after giving up on have the speakers straight ahead ( I think that 3 feet from the side walls are not enough ) .  I circled back to a position that I preferred a long time ago of a toe-in of 9 degrees or 1 7/16ths inches . 

I also re-visited the room treatment on the front wall , something that I hadn't done after replacing the rear ported speakers with the 2.7s .  I found out that I was over dampened , boy do I feel dumb .  My though was the front wall treatment affected only the bass frequencies since if I stood behind the speakers that is what I was hearing , WAS I WRONG  . So an old dog can learn new tricks .

Hope you enjoy my confession .

Happy New Year All

Hi, just purchased a pair of Thiel Cs1.5. Great sounding pair of speakers in my tiny room of 2.3m by 2.3m with a small rectangle extra space like 1 m by 1.5 m, driven by Schiit Aegirs. Seems that the bass is a little light weight when compared to playing in my living room with a Cambridge audio cxa81. When I am near the speakers, I can hear the bass but at the listening position the bass is much less.

A few suspects.

1. Amplifier too low powered

2. Phase cancellation

3. Speakers placed too away from the wall. Now is making use of the small spaced place about 1m out from the rear wall.

4. Not run in speaker cables and interconnect. Run in for 30hours so far.

Any advise much appreciated.

Thanks

Jon