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| thiel 3.7 owners I've been looking for a slightly smaller speaker to replace my Thiel 3.7s (due only to ergonomic issues of a small room).I have auditioned quite a list of speakers and I can't find better. The 3.7s are just ridiculously good. I was going to say ... | |
| Thiel Owners Ok jafant, understood. | |
| Thiel Owners I get that this is a Thiel thread, but since amplification and cables are being made part of the discussion...If you ever wonder why our hobby isn’t taken seriously by the majority of sensible people on earth, watching an audiophile recommend that... | |
| Thiel Owners It was sad when Kathy left Thiel. She was the best.Wow. I've never blown a driver in any speaker. You must enjoy loud listening levels!!!! | |
| Thiel Owners nkonor,Cool. Again, I'm sorry if I'm asking you to repeat info that exists somewhere in these 30 pages of posts....but did you try the last models - CS 2.7 and/or CS 3.7?If so, what did you find more compelling about the older model's sound?I'm c... | |
| Thiel Owners nkonor,Thanks. I realize I should have asked: Which Thiel speakers did you own? | |
| Thiel Owners nkonor,Sorry I haven't followed your posts in this thread, but do I understand correctly from your last post: You've moved from Thiels to the Avalon speakers? Is that right?If so, how do they compare?Thanks. | |
| Thiel Owners I don’t suppose anyone here has heard the heretical new Thiel speakers?Maybe at one of the audio shows? If so, any impressions?I admit that the technical goals of Jim Thiel’s time/phase coherence are compelling to me. And one of the chief characte... | |
| Thiel Owners - "The best part, one does not have to spend big money, to make it happen. In fact, always buy used or demo and save a bit of coin. Every audiophile can afford quality cabling -you would be foolish otherwise." -Completely agree!As an example o... | |
| Thiel Owners robinbarbour,You got it! | |
| Thiel Owners Hi oblgny,I am sympathetic to the desire to squeeze any more performance out of our systems as possible. I certainly succumb to that desire myself.I have come to my conclusions about cables through having paid close attention to the technical arg... | |
| Thiel Owners "Cabling is certainly the most important component in any system"Disagree strongly: Cabling is the least important component in any audio system. But...that's another thread, isn't it :-) | |
| When people upgrade from Thiel I may be able to answer the OP question soon, but let me say that trying to "upgrade" from Thiels is very, very hard...;-) | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks for the info saffron. | |
| Thiel Owners Larry (irsky),Do you mean you worked for Jim Thiel?I had a conversation with Jim at a CES years ago and we got into his motivation regarding speaker design. He told me that he'd originally been very enthusiastic about panel speakers (stats and ri... |