sdecker
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| Thiel Owners To tomthiel and pieper1973. We had discussed this some time ago, but a reminder that my CS2.4, bought from the original owner after one year, are SN 611 & 612, and have the entire Lexington masonite XOs and best parts of the era. Seems unlik... | |
| Thiel Owners For years I've been lamenting that "New Thiel" seemed to have entirely thrown out all the info on "Real Thiel's" comprehensive website. For me, that included the page of zilllions of links for every speaker made: technical supplements, reviews... | |
| Thiel Owners After reading the abbreviated Thiel South American history, I sure wish I had waited to find my CS 2.3 and 2.4 in something more exotic than plain old Maple... | |
| Thiel Owners asiaaudiosoc I have both 2.3 and 2.4 for some time now. I’ve had my 2.3 coaxes replaced once (while real Thiel was still in business and they had production coaxes stocked), and 2.4 coaxes replaced several times. The most-recent replacements were... | |
| Thiel Owners jafant, a 'nice' thread, but not a totally accurate one wrt my assessments. I'm sure I updated my impressions more than once since I've had both speakers in the same room in 2006 and since. I'll be putting my late-production 2.3s up for sale soon. | |
| Thiel Owners Just ignore my pontifications about the differences between 2.3 and 2.4 on those 2005 threads, as they were made based on several hours in an audio showroom. I've had both in my home now for 15 years and my opinions have 'matured.' | |
| Thiel Owners I discovered the benefits of spikes in the same way Tom Thiel did, though likely even more exaggerated with my then Boston Acoustics A200 speakers. These were wide and tall floorstanders, but only 7" deep, with a simple plinth only 4" deep. The ... | |
| Thiel Owners @big_greg Interested to read your adding CS2.3 to your KEF Reference 1. I recently added KEF LS50 Metas to my CS2.3 and CS2.4. Both of us are new to our new brand it seems, and we both have ’enough’ watts for all speakers. While the Reference 1s a... | |
| Thiel Owners @brettmcee Really good post above. I've done and accomplished over a lifetime of hardware and music nearly everything you praise (except reel-to-reel and Schitt, perhaps at my loss). I'm no longer a digiphobe now that *good* digital can be very... | |
| Thiel Owners @thielrules I'm not sure many of us could differentiate a 'coherent source' Thiel from a 'conventional' speaker with standard A/B testing (blind or not) over the course of an evening. As I related a few months ago, I bought Thiels (2.3 then 2.4)... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomtheil Not to put too fine a point on it [although it seems I did!], but I have most of the hardcopy 'glossy' marketing brochures for 2.3, 2.4 and the 2000s entire Thiel line. The 2.4SE brochure's lead headline under "Features and Benefits" i... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel et al: "reflex bass is the industry standard" but none of the current manufacturers are claiming their speakers to be "Completely Time and Phase Coherent." My longwinded observations and questions may be better suited to audio asylum. | |
| Thiel Owners I was following with interest the thread a couple weeks ago about how Thiel's moving from sealed to radiator/ported woofers threw off the low-frequency phase coherency by 360 degrees. How does this make for a "coherent phase" loudspeaker if so mu... | |
| Thiel Owners My 2.4 are 6' from the back wall and either side wall, 8' apart, 9' to the ideal listening position, and have a smidge of toe, <10 degrees. While they're 6' to the 'real' back wall, they're 3' to 'interruptions' like an open stairwell and my s... | |
| Thiel Owners Wow, I can't even let a week go by and this thread gains a couple more pages to catch up on...I want to be the first (?) to agree with TonyWinga's 7/29/21 post of optimizing his CS6 that they parallel my experience with 2.3 and 2.4, and cover most... |