Thiel Owners


Guys-

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!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
128x128jafant
prof

I can guarantee the positive attributes of a CS 2.7 loudspeaker as well.

Well reported. Joseph Audio is close, yet, not a Thiel Audio. 

Happy Listening!



Guys - I would like to provide a report of general status and recent work. As many of you know, I am deeply immersed in redevelopment work. That has led to many rabbit holes, each of those leading to its own warren. The possibilities are limitless and cannot all be addressed. I have taken cues from many of you here as well as in off forum interactions. Thank you. Although I have accumulated and surveyed many models, I am concentrating on the model CS2.2 because I have 2 pairs and know it so intimately.

This current work is informed via my role as manufacturing developer, subsequent use in recording evaluation and mastering work, reviewers comments and general feedback over the years, as well as issues and characterestics upgraded in subsequent models and my speculations on causes. In other words, I am paying attention to a broad range of inputs.

I can't go into all the details, but I can say that there are multiple, parallel performance paths, each of which seems worthwhile. These paths all lead to more clarity, harmonic rightness, spatiality and ease. It is hard to believe that so much can be made so much better in a speaker where these areas are already strengths. I tip my hat to Jim as a designer and to the human auditory processing power. We make sense, good, satisfying sense of pulsating air pressure to imagine full blown music in our minds - on pretty sketchy data streams. Amazing really. That's why MP-3 and Wave Radios can work as well as they do. But fundamentally cleaner data streams make for more thorough immersion in the imagined music.

My newly developed MO includes taking the next title off the shelf on its own terms and relating to it as the producers hoped. That provides a radically different perspective from taking a few well known tunes and perfecting their translation. Let me state that I am not seeing any meaningful changes in frequency balance while hearing significantly different musical information and involvement. I find this phenomenon fascinating.

Let's jump to a persistent, real, global problem with Thiel speakers.
Always fascinated with vibrations we can sense and hear but have no method yet to test for or measure. Working on an applique to surfaces to reduce shear wave interference on most any surface. My favorites being speakers and cabinets and musical instruments.Tom D
tomthiel

Thank You! for the update. Yes, you have put in quite the hours attempting the next evolution of our beloved loudspeakers.

Knowing a pair of speakers is paramount and will serve well as a frame of reference. The Panel members who own 2.2 models are lucky to receive upgrades, firstly,  upon official release.

Have fun and enjoy the Music!

Happy Listening!

theaudiotweak

Good to see you again. I look forward in reading more about your development and research in wave interference as well.

Happy Listening!