I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model? Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!
Merry Chrisrmas to you all. I've enjoyed following this thread since I saw it featured on A'gon. It was I to whom Mike sold his 2.4s and I've enjoyed not only the speakers immensely, but sharing in his quest to find new Thiels and upgrade his system to them. I added the SS1sub and had Robb modify a Thiel passive crossover for the 2.4. Yes,Robb is great to talk to and who will be the go-to guy if he retires? For example, he highly recommended the 2.7 (which they were selling on eBay) over the 2.4 because of the new dual driver that he called the best that Jim Thiel had ever designed, and warned me they had no replacement amps for the SS1 until a new sub in the works comes out. I had looked at the Thiels 5is that Mike traded to a guy in San Antonio and concluded what Mike learned the hard way and you've all confirmed; the speaker price is little compared to the cost of driving them. I'll probably go back to being a fly on the wall but wanted to wish everyone a great holiday. Bob
as we enter into the Christmas weekend, careful travels to you guys. It is a time for family, friends, good music and even better food. I am especially grateful for the many blessings daily.
Hi guys, Ypsilon's distributor called me today to tell me that he is coming down to a client's place to demo the Aelius II monoblocks on his Maggies 20.7 Knowing that i'm interested in Ypsilon gear he proposed me to demo the Aelius ll in my home with my CS 3.7. I'm pretty excited to hear what these awsome hybrid monoblocks can do whith my Thiels. He will bring a Nagra Jazz preamp and we'll use my Hegel HD12 DAC to stream high res files. This should take place jan 14th.
Bravo Robin! What do you have to lose? Just for fun I took my piece of Chinese junk over to a friends and compared it to three other integrateds that cost between 4 and 15 times what mine did on his Legacy speakers. I have to say the little beast from the east didn't embarrass itself, actually held its own rather well. If you want to borrow this one too just say the word.
Jafant, I have the cj MF5600 and some Kimber I'm not using. It's 5 channel but you can use only two if you are interested. No extra preamp though unless pre-pro. I don't see where I can message you solely.... Keep it for a year if you want.
I'm in the same boat as you Jafant. My wife and I purchased a beautiful pice of property that we plan on building a house on. It came with a small cottage that we remodeled and now live in until the new house gets built. Due to the smaller rooms I had to sell of my system (except for the speakers I will never part with) and downsized to an integrated amp/sonos/dac.
One day I plan to put more than one system in this house but in the meantime I have been having fun trying different integrated amps/dacs etc. As maplegrove said above there is no way I would be able to have my speakers and not be able to listen to them.
Anyway since you asked about my system here is where it stands today:
Classic 6.6 (chinese junk) dual mono integrated amp with as good or better build quality than many amps I have owned or seen. I was turned on to this amp by the owner of Ginko Audio.
Speaker Art Super Clefs with custom Lee Taylor cabinets. Some of the best two way stand mounts out there with better bass than many floorstanders i've owned
Currently using a Grant Fidelity Dac (more chinese junk) but that will most likely change soon.
Jafant - Seeing your Thiels in your system picture they look lonesome . No wires even attached . If it were me i would have to hook something up to hear the great sounds the Thiels have to offer . Even a cheap integrated or receiver . Just me . You must have an alternative source of listening to music that tides you over . Hope your search comes to an end quickly . Life is short.
Jafant, someone bought the company very shortly before he passed away. Nothing seem to come from the company after that. John Dunlavy like Jim Thiel were such driving forces and as we have observed, very hard to replace. Most of the Dunlavy's were very large, and despite amazing performance, that might have been a challenge in the marketplace. John Dunlavy told me he was very excited about future projects before his health took a turn for the worse.
during my audition trials, I lifted the CS 2.4, CS 2.4 SE, CS 2.7 and CS 3.7 models for good measure. This is how I formed by basis for reporting such facts. It is one thing to look, visually inspect, any loudspeaker. It is quite different to actually pick it up (by yourself) and carry it around the listening room for placement purposes. The CS 3.7 is certainly more cumbersome and heavier to haul around from room to room.
Jafant, yes I have seen both the 2.4's and 3.7's. I think this might be a matter of perception rather than reality, or perhaps a visual aesthetic concern. All of Jim Thiel's CS designs have basically the same dispersion characteristics.. Though the footprint varies a small amount, all the Jim Thiel CS models have the same basic placement guidelines. In my conversations with Thiel regarding placement, they said that the recommended distances should be measured from the back of the woofers. As the Thiels are time aligned that would be nearly identical to the more obvious tweeters. Even if we were to get especially persnickety; though the 3.7's have larger woofers, with perhaps a larger magnet and motor assembly, those woofer faces are also by design shallower in depth. The distance from the back of the woofer, back wall, side wall, and listener should be nearly identical with either 2.4's or 3.7's. The only other concern regarding room capability would be bass output; again they are nearly identical. The difference in weight has no bearing on room compatibility, unless of course the floors are can't bear the extra weight, which to my thinking would be cause for a different and much more important concern.
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