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| Which Harbeth would work in my room? Hi All,Thanks for the advice. It sounds like a two foot minimum is critical. This is possibly doable in my space (how I hate unnecessary furniture!).You all have definitely confirmed that I should try to hear both the SHL5's and 40.1/40.2's befo... | |
| Watts and power Hi All,Okay, back to basics for the dummies (like me).What is phase angle in terms of amplifier performance and how do you hear it?And a Belated Merry Christmas as well!Dsper | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? After years of running a PS Audio Direcstream dac Sorry, did not read the first line in your post! | |
| Which to Upgrade first? My Amplifier or Speakers FWIW, I tried to power Maggie 1.7's with a Mac integrated 6300 at 100 wpc and it was bland. I tried a Krell 300Si at 150 wpc and it regularly shut down because it could not handle the panels.I powered Maggie 3.6's with a W4S ST 1000 (500 wpc) an... | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? Hi All, First I replaced a Ric Schultz modifed Oppo 103 I did not want to say anything earlier but some of the other posts have emboldened me.When I started looking at DACs and auditioning them in my system - Hegel, Rega, Benchmark, Naim, PS A... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi All,Well the last few comments have gotten me to thinking...Is my PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium inherently noisier than my CJ LS2?Or is it the difference in tubes types (6922's versus 12AU7's)?Or is it tubes that are wearing out versus new tubes?I... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound Tubes can be noisy? Maybe after decades I finally understand what that means!Thanks for listening,Dsper | |
| If you still spin CD's their is a reference level Transport for reasonable money Hi All,do we need spin cd? i believe future music is cloud based music. make sure you cd player is able to do streaming. If you have sizeable cd collection. rip them to hd. The cloud is convenient and the world is changing. That does not necessari... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi All, I traded out my tubed preamp for my Axiom passive preamp and - voila! - no speaker hiss! Then I traded out the Axiom for my CJ 17LS2. The hiss is back but much less of it.What does that tell me?Thanks for listening,Dsper | |
| Thiel Owners Hi tomthiel,I traded out my tubed preamp for my Axiom passive preamp and - voila! - no speaker hiss!Thanks for the advice!Dsper | |
| PrimaLuna Dialogue Preamp = emotionless? highstream,I use a Dialogue Premium (DP) preamp and have the following FWIW comments. I run McCormack amplification and Thiel CS5's.After a while the DP seemed analytical to me and I considered selling it. This was with Phillips rectifiers and aft... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks tomtheil,I have CS5's. Shucks! | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel, "...hiss is coming from the amp chain, not the speaker.The CS5 has rubber pads on the upper and floor woofer and the 5i has center weights..." Tom, please bear with a couple of basic questions:1. Reducing hiss then, is around acquiring ... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi All,I have a couple of CS5 questions for the Thiel experts. 1. how does one determine if they have CS5's or CS5i's? I read somewhere, I think on this thread, that there is no marking on the outside of the speakers to tell? My serial numbers ... | |
| Should I buy used Thiel CS5 jeffvegas,For a price point, I have a pair of CS5's that I bought for $2600 including delivery about two/three years ago.They are oak with the cream colored grills. I had to replace one of the yellow speakers (largest of the three small ones) abou... |