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| Anyone Had Extended Listening Experience With MBL? I’ve been a huge fan of MBL since the late 90’s, when I heard the first truly realistic rendering of drums and especially drum cymbals, at a CES show. It blew my mind how much more natural and realistic the MBLs sounded vs everything else at the s... | |
| Thiel Owners tmsrdg,I hear you. My listening room is a main floor room which I try to maintain as the nicest looking room in the house (first room you see when you step in our door). Aesthetics are a high priority so I always insist when I can on waiting on ... | |
| Thiel Owners FYI...there's a pair of 3.7s now listed on Audiogon. | |
| Thiel Owners kevinaudio,Given you've expressed some reservations about spending too much on speaker cables, if you want to get off that merry-go-round you can always get professional, competently made cables by Beldon which will pass all the same electrons as ... | |
| Thiel Owners oblgny,I agree the Meadowlark speakers can be wonderful. I’d listened to most of their models (when they existed) and ended up with the Blue Heron speakers at my house for a while. IMO, The Meadowlark sound was characterized by a natural organic w... | |
| 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... |