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Post by Loop 7 on Jun 5, 2019 8:39:18 GMT -5
Such a sad ending to Thiel. "The long sad saga of Thiel is just about over for good. Having entered bankruptcy in October 2018, an auction house has finally been selected and started the process of liquidating all that remains of the former Nashville, Tenn-based Thiel…including Thiel Loudspeakers, Aurora by Thiel wireless music systems, and detritus from the Aurora Studio live streaming music studio."Swan Song for Thiel: Total Liquidation Has Begun (Strata-Gee)
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Post by strindl on Jun 5, 2019 10:29:32 GMT -5
Such a sad ending to Thiel. "The long sad saga of Thiel is just about over for good. Having entered bankruptcy in October 2018, an auction house has finally been selected and started the process of liquidating all that remains of the former Nashville, Tenn-based Thiel…including Thiel Loudspeakers, Aurora by Thiel wireless music systems, and detritus from the Aurora Studio live streaming music studio."Swan Song for Thiel: Total Liquidation Has Begun (Strata-Gee)
McLemore Auction Company ListingsThe real Thiel vanished when the company was sold to a money guy, with no particular interest or knowledge of high end audio, in 2012. They then moved from their birthplace and manufacturing plant in Lexington Kentucky, to Nashville. None of their new products followed any of the design principles that Jim Thiel had founded the company on. Luckily for customers of the original Thiel and their products, service and support is still available from a new venture by the longtime manufacturing manager of the original Thiel, Rob Gillum. He has started a company called Coherent Source Service, based a mile from the original Thiel plant and headquarters in Lexington. He has acquired a stockpile of parts for the Thiel legacy models, stating that nearly all relevant parts are available. His knowledge of the manufacturing methods of those legacy speakers means that drivers,crossovers and even cabinetry can be rebuilt and upgraded. The website of the new service company is: www.coherentsourceservice.com/ 859-554-9790
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Post by chicagorspec on Jun 5, 2019 12:29:49 GMT -5
Such a sad ending to Thiel. "The long sad saga of Thiel is just about over for good. Having entered bankruptcy in October 2018, an auction house has finally been selected and started the process of liquidating all that remains of the former Nashville, Tenn-based Thiel…including Thiel Loudspeakers, Aurora by Thiel wireless music systems, and detritus from the Aurora Studio live streaming music studio."Swan Song for Thiel: Total Liquidation Has Begun (Strata-Gee)
McLemore Auction Company ListingsThe real Thiel vanished when the company was sold to a money guy, with no particular interest or knowledge of high end audio, in 2012. They then moved from their birthplace and manufacturing plant in Lexington Kentucky, to Nashville. None of their new products followed any of the design principles that Jim Thiel had founded the company on. Luckily for customers of the original Thiel and their products, service and support is still available from a new venture by the longtime manufacturing manager of the original Thiel, Rob Gillum. He has started a company called Coherent Source Service, based a mile from the original Thiel plant and headquarters in Lexington. He has acquired a stockpile of parts for the Thiel legacy models, stating that nearly all relevant parts are available. His knowledge of the manufacturing methods of those legacy speakers means that drivers,crossovers and even cabinetry can be rebuilt and upgraded. The website of the new service company is: www.coherentsourceservice.com/ 859-554-9790 Right on. Rob is great to deal with.
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Post by strindl on Jun 5, 2019 13:02:12 GMT -5
The real Thiel vanished when the company was sold to a money guy, with no particular interest or knowledge of high end audio, in 2012. They then moved from their birthplace and manufacturing plant in Lexington Kentucky, to Nashville. None of their new products followed any of the design principles that Jim Thiel had founded the company on. Luckily for customers of the original Thiel and their products, service and support is still available from a new venture by the longtime manufacturing manager of the original Thiel, Rob Gillum. He has started a company called Coherent Source Service, based a mile from the original Thiel plant and headquarters in Lexington. He has acquired a stockpile of parts for the Thiel legacy models, stating that nearly all relevant parts are available. His knowledge of the manufacturing methods of those legacy speakers means that drivers,crossovers and even cabinetry can be rebuilt and upgraded. The website of the new service company is: www.coherentsourceservice.com/ 859-554-9790 Right on. Rob is great to deal with. He sure is. I had a tweeter on one of my 3.6's pretty much get fried a few years ago, and Rob was the one I dealt with to have it rebuilt. After I sent him the blown tweeter, he called me and mentioned that the tweeter was severely blown. I kinda knew that because the aluminum dome was all crinkled. I explained that the type of music I listen to was the singer/songwriter acoustic type, driven by a top quality power amp, and never at ear splitting levels. He suggested that the issue could be a defective component in the crossover. He knew specifically which component it was. He had me use a meter to check the resistance between one of the main inputs on the speaker bottom, and one of the wire leads that was attached to the back of the tweeter. It should have been 20 ohms. Mine read .1 ohms, that's point one ohms, or basically a dead short. That explained the severely blown tweeter. Had I hooked up the rebuilt tweeter back to the speaker, it would have blown again. Thanks to Rob and his knowledge of Thiel speakers, that crossover component was replaced before I had the tweeter reinstalled. It's been working fine ever since.
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Post by tom9933 on Jun 5, 2019 14:54:18 GMT -5
Right on. Rob is great to deal with. He sure is. I had a tweeter on one of my 3.6's pretty much get fried a few years ago, and Rob was the one I dealt with to have it rebuilt. After I sent him the blown tweeter, he called me and mentioned that the tweeter was severely blown. I kinda knew that because the aluminum dome was all crinkled. I explained that the type of music I listen to was the singer/songwriter acoustic type, driven by a top quality power amp, and never at ear splitting levels. He suggested that the issue could be a defective component in the crossover. He knew specifically which component it was. He had me use a meter to check the resistance between one of the main inputs on the speaker bottom, and one of the wire leads that was attached to the back of the tweeter. It should have been 20 ohms. Mine read .1 ohms, that's point one ohms, or basically a dead short. That explained the severely blown tweeter. Had I hooked up the rebuilt tweeter back to the speaker, it would have blown again. Thanks to Rob and his knowledge of Thiel speakers, that crossover component was replaced before I had the tweeter reinstalled. It's been working fine ever since. Stories like that make me want to do business with a company like that
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Post by strindl on Jun 5, 2019 16:25:54 GMT -5
Stories like that make me want to do business with a company like that Oh yes indeed. He cared enough to call and talk with me to discuss what he found with the tweeter, plus he knew a possible explanation for why it blew, and an easy way for me to test it without having to ship the 107 pound speaker back to Kentucky. I'm a very satisfied Thiel owner for 26 years.
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