Thiel CS6 Compared with Eggleston Andra 1

Alan, I am with you. I have CS6's which replaced Andra II, remarkable speakers. I am also a longtime Thiel 3.6er and will never sell them.

The Eggy's are great speakers in their own right but the Thiel sound is just too hard to top once dialed in. Cheers!

i can compare Thiel 3.6 which i had in my main system for 10 years to Andra II's which are my reference speaker now, have never heard the 6's unfortunately.

The midrange and tweeter of the Andra is no comparison, the eggy's have that liquid presentation and smooth extension the Thiels can't quite muster. What shocked me the most was the transparency. Thiels disappear as well as any speakers but the Andra's leave the room. All that's left is music! That was the first thing I noticed when I hooked them up.

The Andra's have that big sound of a full range speaker, the 3.6's sound just slightly thin in the lower midrange and mid-bass. Do not know if that is a Thiel house sound or not, I suspect it is but can't be certain since I have not heard the upper models. Hope that helps and gives you some frame of reference.

Hi Alan2, sorry about your woofer. Though it does sound like a DIY project and you can avoid shipping it! A simple desolder and solder in the new driver, I have done it before, not on Thiel, but another speaker.

Curious, why not just put in a new one, what is being rebuilt?

Steve, glad you hung on to your CS6, it is an all time great speaker. I have had mine for a year or so after using 3.6 for 12 years. Your feedback was one of the reasons I upgraded. I could never get my head around the 3.7's. I have learned big speakers are hard to sell, I got very lucky and sold my Eggleston Andra II's locally. These were even heavier than the Thiels.

Alan, that is exactly the case when I replaced the woofer on one of my Eggleston's. The wire to the woofer was VERY short. It just barely protruded out of the speaker cabinet. My wife had to hold the woofer and it was very cumbersome for me to desolder and solder but I got it done.

I am sorry I do not know of any available CS6 woofers - what a bummer Thiel has no inventory for classic models.