Anyone hear Thiel CS1.6?

Thanks for thoughts.

posty09-17-2002 8:32pm

drubin Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,285 posts 09-20-2002 at 05:48pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Crushes it how? You'll certainly get more warmth and more apparent bass from most Spendors, but you'll never get as much detail and resolution and image specificity as the 1.6 delivers. Nor will you ever hear a cymbal, for example, reproduced with as much fidelity as you will from the Thiel. IMHO.
drubin Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,285 posts 09-21-2002 at 02:53am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The feet tapping is certainly a good criterion for judging. Regarding the Spendors, I only want to add that I owned SP1/2's for a couple of years and a friend of mine had the FL9, so I wasn't shooting from the hip. Except that my experience with the Thiels has been limited. But my experience has been that they are champs when it comes to image specificity, which I never found to be true of Spendor (or many other speakers). I'm sorry to say that I never really "got" what all the fuss is about Spendor. And I owned original Quads for 15 years, so it's not like I'm coming from a Cerwin-Vega heritage or anything. And I do know the sound of live music. I guess my musical priorities are different from the legions of audiphiles who admire Spendor.