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| Thiel Owners The easiest to drive Thiel speaker I've ever used or heard of is the older Thiel 02 speaker (which I still have). 90 db sensitivity, easy impedance load, these things live and breath almost like a high sensitivity speaker, even with lower powered... | |
| Thiel Owners I hear you corvette01.I had to sell my Harbeth Super HL5 Plus speakers recently, wanted local sale (I'm in Canada) and it was all the local sale people who hummed and hawed. Ended up selling them to someone in the USA.Though, literally 1/2 an hou... | |
| Thiel Owners corvette01,So if I understand correctly you got only really lowball offers? That seems weird, since as far as I can tell 3.7s have sold fairly well over the last couple of years (and now are all the more rare). I wonder if people are wary of a c... | |
| Thiel Owners I always wondered if those Les Paul 3.7s sold or not. It can be hard to tell when trying to track sales of speakers. | |
| Most "Accurate/Realistic" Sounding Speakers? It's a complicated question as folks here clearly already know.Depends on what you are trying to reproduce as well - voices? A big band? A whole symphony? A rock band?I've always been fascinated by the whole real vs reproduced question so for m... | |
| Thiel speaker model range FWIW, both the Thiel 2.7 and the bigger 3.7 work equally well in my 15ft by 13ft room. | |
| Has anyone considered rebuying a speaker you once owned?? Another speaker I sort of let get away that I'd love to re-buy:Waveform Mach Solo.These were the smaller version of the mighty Mach 17s - famous for their egg-module head containing the midrange and tweeter - that John Otvos sold for only a short ... | |
| Is Spiking Necesarry? Re Herbie's gliders.I now have them under my big Thiel 3.7 speakers.My speaker have sat without spikes on a shag carpet over a solid wood floor, and the bass response (and general sound) has been so even and seemingly perfect I've never bothered w... | |
| Thiel Owners I actually find the 2.7 sounds a bit more like the earlier models vs the 3.7.The 2.7 has that slightly tighter, denser, focused concissive quality I'd always heard from Thiel - the 3.7s being a bit more of a departure - smoother more lush. This ... | |
| VAC vs Conrad Johnson Amps? lissnr,I certainly agree about the attributes of the CJ Premier 12s."Balance" is the key description, and the one that Michael Fremer used as well. When I tried various contender amps (at the time) there always seemed to be a sort sculpting (deli... | |
| VAC vs Conrad Johnson Amps? pdreher,Wow, that's the first time I've ever heard someone refer to a CJ tube amp as sounding like solid state (especially an older CJ amp).Thanks for the insight into the sonics of the VAC amps.Some day... | |
| Thiel Owners robinarbour,Do you mean how much have I tilted them? I haven’t tilted either the 3.7 or the 2.7. Simply set them down without spikes (I’ve tried spikes before and they didn’t make anything better about the sound). So they have whatever tilt is bui... | |
| Thiel Owners Ok, so here for anyone interested is my initial first impressions report on the Thiel 2.7s:As I've mentioned, I have the Thiel 3.7s and have considered downsizing somewhat, for space/ergonomic reasons, though not for sound - because they sound min... | |
| Thiel Owners I've done some listening to my gorgeous-looking 2.7s. Wow! What a speaker!! | |
| VAC vs Conrad Johnson Amps? Just want to say:Thanks for all the input, fellas.It turns out I'll have enough on my plate (financially) in sorting out my new speakers so I'll have to put off any amp upgrade for now. (I was tempted by the VAC 300.1 for sale on audiogon).I'll s... |