Thiel Owners

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2nd Note;

Agreed. Model CS 2.7 was a nice way to honor Jim. I wonder how many pair(s) were manufactured?

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Rob says 1500 pair.

The first brigade of New Thiel had some good talent. And the new owners were trying out building on Jim's legacy. In particular Steve DeFuria had been an early Thiel retailer and long-time inner circle supporter. Steve became the first national sales manager and was able to re-populate the dealer base by decommissioning Crutchfield and other sincere promises. Those 1500 pairs were made entirely at Thiel Lexington with PtoP boards and best historic practices. They even got the (new at that time) Klippel Quality Control system, but I don't think they learned its ropes before changing horses with the next management team. Five new teams in five years to try to please a very difficult principal owner. $ten million spent to scuttle Jim's legacy.

tomthiel

Thank You for the CS 2.7 count. Very cool that the Speaker was manufactured at Thiel Lexington. Did Rob Gillum have a Role during that time?

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Yes, Rob definitely had a role. Home Team Thiel managed the executive design and manufacturing engineering and execution. Principal players were Kathy Gornik, Dawn, Rob, Gary Dayton and probably some others. Thiel in 2012 was a skeleton crew and all hands believed that bringing this post-Jim product to market was essential to any kind of future. The drivers already existed in the 3.7 coax and 2.4 woofer. Technical crossover engineering was done by Warkwyn in Toronto, which resembled pulling teeth to get an authentic ’Thiel’ product from an outside firm with ideas of their own. Indeed the CS2.7 was part of what attracted a new buyer . . . which could have carried on the company, but was not a good fit and things went south. But the product exists as a testament to Home Team Thiel’s dogged determination. (Also, there is some low-hanging fruit for improvement.)