Tyler vs. Thiel

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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited September 2007
    I'd probably replace the floor as well :)
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited September 2007
    Stunning. Those are now beautiful speakers. They weren't before.

    Edit - I just went back and looked at the pics from before - those were worse than I remembered. Congrats on some excellent sounding speaks and they look great too!
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,341
    edited September 2007
    Very nice Ricardo!

    Congrats on the Thiels. You've got a first class system there! I'm envious.:D
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited September 2007
    Yep the black looks mucho better.
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  • Ern Dog
    Ern Dog Posts: 2,237
    edited September 2007
    Very nice looking. 100% better than the white
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited September 2007
    Once you go black cloth you never go back.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited September 2007
    C'mon, admit it. You're missing those Tylers, aren't ya...
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited September 2007
    I like the way the Tylers looked. I miss them in that room. :(
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,664
    edited September 2007
    very nice. Don't forget to let us know (sound wise) the pluses and minuses of the Thiel's.
    engtaz

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited September 2007
    Why would he miss the Tyler? He has speakers that acutally sound good now.

    I think they looked (and still do) like **** since looks are the order of the day.

    ;)
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited September 2007
    The only thing I might miss about the Tylers is the looks, and the punch. Tylers are GREAT sounding speakers. Thiels are just better.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,536
    edited September 2007
    The white grille cloth was distracting to the point I didn't even notice before how perfectly well matched the veneer is on both speakers.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited September 2007
    Emlyn wrote: »
    The white grille cloth was distracting to the point I didn't even notice before how perfectly well matched the veneer is on both speakers.

    I was lucky enough to tour their manufacturing facility and actually saw how they do this. Basically the veneer is "shaved" from the tree, so each "sheet" is almost identical as the next. This makes it really easy to match it. I had never seen this, so obviously it was a big learning for me.
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited September 2007
    I actually watched an episode of Dirty Jobs or whatever on Discovery. One was about fishing huge tree trunks from the bottom of a river / lake and showed the process of creating veneer for furniture from the wood.

    It was pretty awesome. Each trunk is worth thousands of dollars because they are hunders of years old and in awesome condition because of being in the water. They shave them down to almost paper-thin level, glue onto the furniture, and stain. It's awesome. . .
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