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| Let's talk Tweeters! The following isn’t a claim about some objective technical truth; it’s only my subjective assessment:The best tweeter I’ve ever experienced (or my favorite) is the MBL (omni) tweeters. I remember the first time I encountered the MBL at a CES show ... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,Understandable. We all have our own criteria. I personally like a near field, or close to near field listening set up because I love being enveloped in the sound, I get the most realistic sound staging, and to my ears usually the most natu... | |
| Thiel Owners jonandfamily,I never had the 3.6s, though I heard them many times "back in the day."I preferred the CS6's over the 3.6, and had the CS6's for quite a while.(They worked well in my small room; the 3.7s work even better).Nothing I miss about any pre... | |
| Thiel Owners oblgny,I thoroughly agree about Thiel's and bass. I've enthused about this often. It is the most tonally controlled bass I've ever experienced.When a stand up bass plays there is none of that added bit of blur/bloom at the bottom that you hear w... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,I went into lots of detail about the Thiels and (my) tube amps in this thread a while back:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/thiel-with-quot-warmest-quot-midrange-2-7-vs-3-7-vs-older?hig...My speaker cables are still 10 awg Belden cabl... | |
| Thiel Owners Ah, got it. Sometimes I wish I'd grabbed an early pair of 2.7s that were available to me, if only because they are a bit smaller and they had the ebony finish I coveted. Still, it's simply astonishing how well the 3.7s work in my small room. In... | |
| Thiel Owners robinbarbour,Yes, why do you ask?(The only thing that sort of temps me to replace them someday could be some VAC amps. The CJs have been able to control every big or small speaker I've had, combining a tautness and punch with the CJ musicality. ... | |
| Thiel Owners Been I while since I posted in this thread, happy to see it still going!A few things:1. Has anyone noticed that the sales of the Thiel flagship 3.7 and 2.7 speakers has almost totally dried up???!!!I’d decided I had to have the 2.7 or 3.7 soon aft... | |
| Best interconnect burn-in method respected_ent,Just...use your cables. If they aren't faulty, they will work fine out of the box. The fewer audiophile myths you fall for, the less money you will waste and the less paranoid you will be. | |
| Why pay so much for super high end? Apologies for typos above, written fast, unable to edit now. Oh well... | |
| Why pay so much for super high end? Wow, what a thread. Starts off with a trollishly-expressed take on high end audio, moves partly to ID and religion after an irrelevant (and unfortunately ignorant) insert regarding evolution. But...that's the internet. :-) (Not that comment thr... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,Benchmark Dac, custom built tube pre-amp and also a CJ Premier 16LS2 pre-amp. Also Eico-HF81 integrated. I like tubes :-)Cabling...I'm not a "cables" guy (I've had access to as wide a range of cables as you can imagine, due to contacts i... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant,As I've written before: my CJ Premier 12 monoblocks are driving the Thiel 3.7s very well. If one wanted more "slam" to the sound, especially the bass, I suppose one could go to much more powerful SS amps or something. But in terms of the ... | |
| Thiel Owners Nice thread! I've actually been thinking about "where are the Thiel owners these days?" as well.I was on here quite a bit last year as I fretted about which set of Thiels to buy. Huge fan of the old CS6s, and struggled between buying a second ha... | |
| Thiel with "Warmest" Midrange? 2.7 vs 3.7 vs Older Thanks jafant.Whether they still exist at Dealerships, I still find it odd that on-line second hand sales seemed to suddenly drop off a cliff, relatively speaking. |