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| Thiel Owners Looking forward to your review on Thiel speakers- beetlemaniaWell, you've already read my opinion on the CS1.6 . . . Today, I received my CS2.4SE. They're a bit rougher cosmetically than the seller disclosed but the drivers are flawless. I've li... | |
| Thiel Owners Seems inevitable that they will fold. Why did they ever bring on a new designer that threw out pretty much every one of Jim Thiel's principles? Crazy! I hope that one of the employees will buy out the legacy parts and continue to offer service and... | |
| Thiel Owners Jim Thiel made some fantastic designs. In particular, some of his drivers were and still are among the best ever, IMO. I think his main shortcoming was relying almost exclusively on measurements and not so much on listening. The CS2.4SE seems to b... | |
| What's Next Vivid B1 Decade would be on my list at that price category, maybe Vandersteen 5A Carbon. Lucky you! | |
| Thiel Owners the problem here is because Vandersteen is affordable it gets treated with entry-level Band-aid wires and gear and suffers the consequences. Yeah, the consequence of building to a price is that you can't have everything. The 2Ce and 3A are rema... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the reply, jafant If you enjoy the Vandy sound I do except they have a somewhat veiled midrange, IMO, probably because of the plastic driver. The latest versions use a "tri-woven" driver which is said to be better but I haven't heard i... | |
| Thiel Owners Stevecham: CS6 could be interesting; i don't doubt you're happy. I rank the CS7.2 just a notch below the very best speakers I've heard (Vandersteen 7, TAD Ref 1, Vivid Giya, and Avalon Ascent) but better than Wilson W/P 7 and 8, Revel Studio and o... | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) Ayre and ARC are my favorites and I've been told Aesthetix is also good (something about the letter A?). I recently upgraded to an Ayre AX-5 Twenty. There are only a couple of separates I have heard that I thought were better. | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Have you ever compared your CS2.4SE to Vandersteen 2Ce Sig II, 3A Sig or Treo? I used to own CS1.6 and loved them except there was no low bass (essentially nothing below 50 cycles in my room) and an occasional distortion in the upper mid-... | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) Not necessarily warm or tubey per se, but fleshed out in the upper bass and harmonically complete in the midrange, as opposed to lean.Ayre! | |
| Vandersteen Seminar at Audio Connection (NJ) a coincident driver has absolutely nothing to do with pistonic..... Right, I didn't intend to imply that it did but pistonic behavior is very much the design goal of the TAD and expensive KEFs (not sure how close the Chinese-made KEFs get but th... | |
| Vandersteen Seminar at Audio Connection (NJ) RV mentioned that the carbon/balsa sandwich cones -- just the cones -- cost him about $1400/each. OK, maybe the world isn't ready for a $15K model 2! lolSome others have also gotten pistonic behavior: Vivid, KEF, TAD, and Avalon come to mind. A... | |
| Vandersteen Seminar at Audio Connection (NJ) [RV] mentioned that a major objective is to bring pistonic behavior into the lower-cost designs Please, please, please! I've fantasized about my 2Ce Sig IIs with carbon tweeter and midrange. That might be hard to make coherent with a lesser woof... | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? How about Ryan speakers of Riverside CA. The top-of-the-line model looks nice but is out of my budget. I can't get excited about the drivers in the more affordable models. Reference 3A Grand VeenaI like that the new ones have a beryllium tweete... | |
| New Vandersteens or something else? Monitor Audio is made in China. Yes, I found an entire article on Soundstage about that! |