Thiel Owners

spacebird42

Welcome! Good to see you here today.  We have a few fans/owners of the CS 1.2 loudspeakers. Stay tuned until one of The Panel members chimes in to address your query. I look forward in reading more about your Musical tastes and System.

Happy Listening!

@spacebird42 , The CS 1.2’s  with their moderate sensitivity and perhaps more importantly above 4 Ohm impedance they are amongst the easier Thiels to power. They can not go very low in bass , play very loud l, aren’t meant for large rooms. So used as intended they aren’t that power hungry. Due to their lack of low bass they can sound a bit tipped up. Avoid amplification that’s on the bright side, has mid-range suck out or is loose in bass. If you can find an old ss conrad-Johnson MF-80 that has been recently re-capped; I think you will be very happy.   BTW, used alpha-core MI 2 speaker cables are a relatively inexpensive choice that will work beautifully in such a system.

@unsound Thanks for the input, glad to know the 1.2's aren't quite so demanding. 

@jafant My system is a frankenmonster cobbled together from shitty components that have been gifted to me. However, it plays music and I reallllllly like music. Been on a Japanese jazz fusion kick lately, listening to a lot of Casiopea and Masayoshi Takanaka (not really jazz). Jam bands, jazz, funk, and early 2000's rap are my typical listening habits. Mendelssohn or Bach when I'm feeling snooty and/or studying