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| Thiel Owners FWIW, I hope to have time Monday or Tuesday to post my listening impressions of some speakers that I've considered for replacing the Thiels. | |
| Thiel Owners robinbarbour,Believe me, I know! That's one big sticking point for me, the fact you can't seem to get these things anymore. But if I really want to solve the problem I'm dealing with, I would have to sell the Thiels in order to afford anything t... | |
| Thiel Owners Listening to the Thiel 3.7s again last night...boy I don’t know if I can give these things up! It’s amazing the degree to which you can dial in a speaker (especially like the 3.7) to one’s taste - far field, near field, toed in, toed out. As I’ve ... | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! erik,cool.Sorry I'm not going to be able to add particularly technical info to the thread. I only had listening impressions to give at this point. | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! erik,I made my comments in regards to the tweeters used in the speakers I mentioned, and how I perceived their effect. Do I understand then that you are looking only for technical contributions? Maybe this is more of a DIY speaker builder discuss... | |
| Let's talk Tweeters! I have to echo Duke’s response. I get why you don’t want to mention brands, but it seems to really limit the applicability of the discussion.MBL makes a very specific type of tweeter as far as I know not found elsewhere, and I have no idea if othe... | |
| 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. |