Thiel Owners

beetlemania
Thank You for the update on your XO project. Good to read that your speakers continue to bloom since inception.

Happy Listening!

The auction is over.  As far as I know this is the only auction of its type in the last 20 years.  The TT1 prototypes went for $3,800.  That surprises me.  The raw drivers went for really cheap.  The big Krell went for $2,700.  I thought about bidding on a couple of things but I don't need anything so I didn't.  As far as I know nobody ever found Jim Thiel's decades of notes and that's probably the biggest bummer of the whole situation.

I bought a pair of 3.6's in 1993 and have been enjoying them ever since. They make reproduced music sound like live music, and that's all you can ask of an audio system.  I've driven them with a variety of power amps over the years.  For many years, I used a Nelson Pass era Threshold SA/4e, a pure class A, 97 pound amp rated at 100 watts per channel at 8 ohm of pure class A power. They deliver far more at 4 ohm. I sometimes switch to a pair of Emotiva XPA-1 gen 1 monoblocs rated at 1,000 watts each at 4 ohm. 

strindl
Welcome! Good to see you here. You will find many fans and owners of the 3.6 loudspeaker from the Panel. I look forward in reading more about your system, musical tastes.
Happy Listening!

Happy Friday! All