I believe I may have purchased the last pair of Thiel 2.7 to leave Nashville. They were advertised on eBay as b stock from a warehouse leftovers, but I couldn’t find a thing wrong with them. Birdseye maple wood. Thiel shipped them VIA AIR on a skid. I recently added a Classe CA2300 and a Mytek Manhattan II. Using Audirvana as playback software, I was blown away by the improvement in sound. Miss Jim Thiel designs. Don’t know why someone didn’t pick up where he left off.