Thiel Owners
The first step in building a nice sounding systems, is to make sure all the elements of your system are set up correctly and efficiently by performing a number of verification measurements. This video will give you some ideas. Using Key Measurements to Verify Basic System Setup Deer Creek Audio is a miniDSP authorized dealer |
Just hooked up the Viewpoints to my computer system. They're on the B speaker output of my 2001 Creek 5350SE. Audio is from PC through AudioQuest dragonfly red. The A output is on my 2010ish VA Mozart Grands. I've got $7k MSRP worth of speakers that I paid $1,040 for. Great value is available on the used market if you keep your eyes open and know what to look for. These couldn't be more different. The Thiels have the usual crisp, clear, coherent sound. Not much bass but that's fixable. The VAs have a lot of bass but it's kind of slow port bass. I think they're getting relocated. I wasn't sure I was gonna care that much since it's just a pc system. Even with the very limited bass it's easier to follow the bassline on the Thiels because they're so much more distinct. It's funny, I usually don't like the Thiel sound until I listen for 10 or 15 minutes. They sound off a little bit off at first but once I get used to it again everything else sounds wrong. They have better upper bass punch. It's super quick compared to what I'm used to here. Much more even and balanced, the VAs bass sounds too disconnected from the rest by comparison. That little coax really was a great driver. Alright, had to go get an adapter but I hooked up an idle psb sub series 100. It's a tiny sealed box sub but it's working great in this setup. It gets me to 40 hertz with no problem at as loud of a volume as I'll ever need nearfield. I went to an online tone generator sight to figure out where to set the volume and crossover. This system is at a whole new level, how fun. listening to these bass covers and the sub is integrating nicely and filling out below around 100hz where the speakers start to drop.
|
