tonywinga
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| Thiel Owners Tom,Thank you for the information. I learned something. I ordered a new throw rug for my room to go in front of the speakers. I unwittingly ordered a wool rug because I like wool and I opted for the more expensive fiber pad instead of the much ... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi everyone. I just made a change to my listening room. I removed the carpet and installed 3/4" hardwood flooring. The upgrade exceeded my expectations. The Thiel CS6's have never sounded better. The new floor not only made the bass tighter a... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello brettmcee, I will chime in. I have had my CS6 speakers for 16 years now. I know them pretty well. As far as amplification they need lots of current. The impedance drops to 1 ohm at some frequencies. As a rule if your amp can double wat... | |
| The one must have audiophile hi-res sampler. Thanks for the tip. I bought the hi res FLAC download. The recording quality is very good but the music content is just so so to me. I like Born 2b Blue best by Steve Miller. A few tracks are labeled Single Mic Recording but still have a stere... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Speed and velocity can be confusing for one reason the units are the same- ft/sec, miles per hour, or m/s. For example when driving your car you might maintain a constant speed through a curve and your speedometer shows that your speed is unchang... | |
| Vinyl guy seeking recommendation for a top level cd player We have some on this forum that live by specifications. Since most all CD players have pretty much identical specs, just buy the cheapest CD player you can find and it will sound better than vinyl- by their logic. Of course, most of us know bett... | |
| How old are you? I’m a 63 year old who started playing the piano at 6 and then the violin at 8. I switched to playing the stereo at 19 my first electronic device being a used Kenwood receiver and a pair of 3 way boxes set up in my dorm room. That was 1977. Casset... | |
| What is the sound level of Your Listening Room? I measured 27dBa at 6:30 this morning in my listening room. The birds chirping outside would make it bounce to 29. I was standing about 4 feet away and when my stomach gurgled it jumped to 31. It doesn’t take much to get over 30. When listenin... | |
| CD v Streamed Wow tough crowd. Suum cuique. | |
| CD v Streamed Hi George, this review is for you. I found an album that rocks on Qobuz. KD Lang's Makeover track 3, Keep on Moving. It is in 44.1/16 format on Qobuz. I bought the record. It came as a 33 1/3 two record set (14 tracks) in an unusual turquoise ... | |
| CD v Streamed I see hi end or hifi streaming as still a cottage industry. I imagine a lot of people have and will continue to make contributions to this technology. For now, this technology at least for hi end hifi is still very much in development without a ... | |
| CD v Streamed Part of the fun of vinyl is that it shouldn't work so well. It's just not possible, it would seem, for vinyl to sound so good. The stereo 33 1/3 LP concept was sketched out by two engineers on a cocktail napkin. With those auspicious beginnings... | |
| CD v Streamed I know all the technical data and comparison between vinyl and analog. Similar to the SS and Tube amp discussions in the 1980s, SS amps looked great on paper with their great S/N and low distortion but tubes still had the advantage in listening. ... | |
| CD v Streamed I received my replacement optical converters today. It appears the problem may have been in the fiber optic cable. The old cable does not work at all. The replacement cable works but one connector is a bit flaky. I had to manipulate the connect... | |
| CD v Streamed I tried out an Optical Media Converter today. After reading threads about this being an effective improvement I thought I would try it. Some months ago I put a network switch between my ROON server and the router which improved the sound. Still, 4... |