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| Thiel Owners vair68robert,My 3.7 Thiels are in the Morado (red finish with deep wood grain).They are gorgeous, though my room is done in a deliberate brown, cream and black accent, so speakers with those tones tend to sit beautifully in the room. (I've cons... | |
| Thiel Owners vair68robert,First, congrats on your purchase!I'm taken aback by your reporting of all those 2.7s for sale, as I had (and have) been following that market for quite a while and the 2.7s were even more rare than the 3.7s. (In fact, it took two yea... | |
| Thiel Owners Yeah, there will likely always be old Thiel speakers available on the second hand market. But Jim’s last great Thiels, the 3.7 and 2.7,* are damned rare on the market now. I’ve been keeping track. When I look at my 3.7/2.7s I think "whoa I’m lucky... | |
| Most "Accurate/Realistic" Sounding Speakers? erik,2 - Imaging. I challenge everyone to go to a live acoustic event and close their eyes and listen. Compare to home. The truth is most real life venues imaging is not that specific. Listen to a street busker even. Close your eyes and compare. I... | |
| Most "Accurate/Realistic" Sounding Speakers? sunnyjim,I understand your perspective. I seem to remember feeling similarly when I heard the 1.6. It lost too much of the warmth range.The 3.7s are both super smooth (not peaky or hashy), and I combined them with Conrad Johnson amps, in a nice so... | |
| Most "Accurate/Realistic" Sounding Speakers? I'm a fan of Robert E Green's writing. That said, I don't know that I've noticed the floor standing "dip" phenomenon he mentions, at least insofar as being more common than among monitor speakers (i.e. I hear dips and colorations in both types... | |
| 2017 ‘Keeper’ speakers under - $25K blindjim,one of my bigger pet peeves is to read thru a review or article on audio equipment, and no one posts the just as important info... like weights, sizes, number of inputs, or outputs, sensitivities, IMP's, damping factors, even cost isn... | |
| Thiel Owners nkonor,Still pondering. I've been listening to the 2.7s for quite a while and just last night switched in the 3.7s again. It's still a tough decision because they do different things "better" but I'm not in a big rush as I own both. | |
| Thiel Owners I don't know if Miss McKenna can help turn the fortunes of the new Thiel around...but they should at least have waited until she was off the toilet before taking her picture ;-) | |
| Tekton Double Impacts teajay,"In my professional work the website I write for does not do reviews on IC’s, speaker wire, or power cords. "Good for them, IMO :-)I read your reviews of the Tekton speakers with interest and admit they made me want to hear them (I still do... | |
| Journey ending speakers As I've said before: never trust any audiophile who says he has found his "journey-ending speaker" until he's on his death bed.Most of us feel that way when we are enamoured with some new purchase but then after a while, whadyya know, something ne... | |
| Conrad Johnson--does anyone use this brand anymore? I started in the 90s with a CJ MV 55 stereo tube amp and when I needed beefier amplification for a wider range of speakers I auditioned everything under the sun - solid state and tubed. For me the CJ Premier 12 monoblocks came out on top. Just lik... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm in no hurry, nkonor. (That's the nice thing about owning them to test out, vs a limited home audition with one of them).Keeping both is an option, but one I'm trying to resist. I tend to like one aspect of a speaker over another and not want... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? I just thought I'd raise another analogy:Guitars.Notice that quite a number of guitarists (when they have the means) like to collect different guitars. Why would they do that? After all, if they were only "into the music" then guitar music could... | |
| What is your speaker ownership history since 1995? gryphongryph,"Sorry, not to judge,..." ...is almost always followed by judgement...and a lecture ;-)We are audiophiles. The gear is part of the hobby. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be here (including you).Men (it seems more than women) are often into ... |