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| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i Our hobby seems awash with rave reviews of the latest, greatest streamer, but perhaps what’s missing are longer term analyses of performance, reliability etc, etc. My Node 2i has unquestionably been my most cost effective and rewarding purchase i... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Everyone, It’s been a good while since I checked in on this wonderful thread, but I do try to keep up with posts pretty much every week. I’ll update on my fairly recent changes to the setup around my 3.5s, but I firstly want to thank everyone... | |
| SkyfiAudio As others have pointed out, their pricing is most off-putting. I have had dealings with The Music Room and only have good things to say about them. Their descriptions are far more detailed than SkyFi and include images of any blemish you are going... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? It's all very well saying that all prices are rising. That is broadly true. However the audio industry was merrily hiking prices when inflation wasn't a factor at all. So what you have now is a situation where prices are indeed ridiculous. The ind... | |
| Thiel Owners I wanted to share my experiences in the past few weeks with using Townshend Super Tweeters on my 3.5s. I have deleted my earlier post on this as it was published in the middle of a deep conversation on amps and I think it must have flown over ever... | |
| Thiel Owners With no disrespect intended to those of you putting forward various proprietary solutions for sub set up, I use the ultimate power in the universe for such configuration with my 3.5s - a pair of ears.Not scientific, but my goal, as I’m sure applie... | |
| Thiel Owners My own take on using tubes with 3.5s (I’ve used a VPI 299D integrated with mine for about three or four years now), is that component quality is as important as lots of power.There were only 100 299Ds ever made (it was a vanity project around the ... | |
| Thiel Owners @yyzsantabarbara I'm following your AHB2 experience with great interest as I'm considering trialing this amp in my own system, which includes CS 3.5s and a Benchmark DAC2 HGC.I've read comments about the lean bass of the AHB2, so I wasn't surprise... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Everyone. Still dropping by every Friday to check out what’s happening in my favorite Audiogon thread.Really good to read about the AHB2 experiences. I have been considering trialing one of these with my 3.5’s. Previous experiences with bridgin... | |
| Electrostatic Speakers I see this thread is quite old, but allow me to tell you about my saga with 989s when I was still living in England.I heard a pair at the London Hifi Show soon after they launched and, well, let’s just say they blew me away completely. So I went h... | |
| Thiel Owners Maybe I’m just lucky, but I find the integration of two subs with my 3.5s to be seamless and without issue. I spent a little time getting the positioning absolutely correct, by ear, which in my music room turns out to be exactly 1 foot behind the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Everyone,Just dropping by to say hello for the first time in a while.Catching up with this thread is always part of my Friday routine and it’s lovely to see that there’s so much enthusiasm for this wonderful brand. I see one or two new folks wi... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Everyone. Belated Season’s Greetings to all. As I might have mentioned earlier in this thread, I’ve been using two subs very, very sucessfully with my 3.5s for a couple of years now. Much of the following may therefore be repeated comment, but ... | |
| Spiking older Thiels Rob Gillum is the man. I bought a pair of 3.5s a few years back, lacking the spikes. Rob sorted it all. | |
| ESL57 vs ESL63 My Quad ESL ownership experience encompasses two pairs of 57s, two pairs of 63s and a pair of 989s. I therefore suppose I’m reasonably well qualified to answer your question, which probably doesn’t need to be much more than the fact that I’ve ende... |