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| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? Thank you terry. Sorry if I was brusque. | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? @terry1229You my friend have a nostalgia for an older technology. First, even IF nostalgia were involved, so what? What’s wrong with nostalgia? And if something is servicing a desire for nostalgia, it is of value not a "scam." More important: No, ... | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? I personally think this resurgence of interest in analogue is a passing fad.Why do people keep throwing around the word "fad" so loosely?What, I wonder, would actually, reasonably constitute a "fad?"Take DVD. It only became available around 1997.... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom,Yes, those 7.2s sure are rare on the used market. Whenever one showed up on audigon or wherever, I'd get melancholy. They were something of a dream speaker for me and used prices were affordable. But their size has always precluded a purch... | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? terry1229Hm...What advertising will do to the young and impressionable! All this vinyl rage is the latest fad and advertising scam.That is merely naive cynicism masquerading as insight. And it already puts you as out of touch. Cynics were yellin... | |
| Thiel Owners (Thanks again to the well-wishers for your kind comments!)Tom,Where does the 7.2 sit in your estimation? Is it still the pinnacle of performance in Jim's designs? | |
| Is the Vinyl Revival well and growing? YES!I got more heavily back in to vinyl around 1 year ago, and especially about 9 months ago when I bought a really nice high end turntable for the first time. I had been using a micro seiki turntable that I'd had for years, bequeathed to me by m... | |
| Thiel Owners Yes, unsound, I agree that when Dunlavy were around their speakers tended to share the general characteristics I hear in Thiels. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? One of my more surprising, and joyous pairings of amp and speaker actually turned out to be my MBL 121 monitors - spec'd at 4ohm/82db sensitivity, and my lil' old Eico HF-81 integrated tube amp. A measly 14W/side. It just sounded glorious: rich... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the well wishes everyone. (Tom, I'll check out vitamin B. The therapy I'll be undergoing already involves a tiny "leap of faith" ;-) )Dan,Wow, you are a fellow Thiel nut! Until recently I had three Thiel speakers myself - 3.7, 2.7 an... | |
| Thiel Owners Hope you are well and enjoying this Fall season. Thanks jafant.But...as it happens...I’m not doing terribly well, in a way pertinent to high end audio and music. And if my post count here starts to drop quite a bit, there’s a reason.I’ve had pret... | |
| Thiel Owners "It is kind of a tragedy that the 2.7/3.7 coax isn't being produced any more."I share that sentiment! | |
| Thiel Owners dancastagna,I'm a bit unclear about your post. Do you mean you already have the 3.7s and 2.7s, and yet are contemplating buying yet another pair of 2.7s...or the CS6? Do you mean you are running your current 2.7s with solid state and want to tr... | |
| Thiel Owners I see a pair of Thiel 2.7s in gorgeous birds-eye maple, for sale on ebay right now:https://www.ebay.com/itm/232972524856What an absolute bargain for a speaker that beautiful, and of that quality.As a 2.7 owner I can't recommend these beauties high... | |
| How can anyone want more......Just a very happy listener. mrdecibal,No problem. Sorry, I was just pulling your leg a little. I'm sure you listen to a wide range, and even if you didn't it wouldn't matter - it's no one's business to tell us what we like to listen to. (I listen to some stuff that other p... |