Thiel Owners

Pull the driver and if the wires go directly to the terminals, it is 'new'. If there is an electronic component on one of the terminals it is 'old'.

Rob hasn't mentioned any serial number record, etc. Many records were 'lost' under New Thiel.

If you 2.7-3.7 owners plan to keep your speakers forever it might be a good idea to get the new black Coaxes at some point, your Thiels will sound just like new.

Thanks for the info @tomthiel 

@thieliste 

I saw the photo.  Ok, so it's only the surround that is painted black.  I'd hoped it was the driver that was black.  Not sure it's useful to me then, but I'm thankful you posted the photo.  cheers.

Wow @dhoff01 , care to share a pic of those? I wonder how many of the Les Paul versions were made?

I too had thoughts of the " speaker " being black anodized aluminum , which would have looked very cool since I do take the grills off when listening . While the bright aluminum coax's don't look so bad the bright white woofers stand out like a sore thumb , but since I'm tripping out on the music I can overlook the big white speaker