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| Thiel Owners dsper - if you like the Thiel sound, a pair of CS.5s might work. They are a diminutive floor-standing 2-way which under your conditions might work well - Stereophile tested them at 89dB sensitivity. Thiel's flat impedance curve works to your advan... | |
| Thiel Owners Read deeper re output voltage. I think it has 3 levels, setable via internal jumpers. Benchmark is very attuned to gain-staging. Their power amp has 3 input levels. | |
| Thiel Owners coop_301 - Last year I spent considerable time selecting my front end. My particular bias is toward neutrality / honesty with stellar technical specs required and extra points for ubiquity in the pro record-making world. I landed on Benchmark. I ... | |
| Thiel Owners Robert - a primary consideration is the length of your interconnects. Long interconnects place the burden of driving them onto your source components. | |
| Thiel Owners coop - FWIW, Thiel owned and used the ML 23.5 / 27.5 extensively in the day. Many dealers successfully sold that ML / Thiel combination. It's a good match. | |
| Thiel Owners Offering a third to Harry's second: All the early spikes are the same. Thiel "invented" spikes in the late 70s for the 03. If others were using spikes at that time, we didn't know about it. Remember, no internet. They were all the same 1/4" x 2" w... | |
| Thiel Owners Got it. Thanks. | |
| Thiel Owners Vintage50 - I have a set of CS3 spikes in hand and believe them to be the same size as the CS3.5. There are two sets, one pointed (for carpet) and the other rounded (for hard floor.) Both are 1/4" diameter. Pointed are 2" long and rounded are 1.2... | |
| Thiel Owners All - I have family and friends in Lexington who report no damage there. Also, Rob's farm where he retreats to hunt and fish are farther east, away from the tornadoes. So we can assume he didn't get hit. However, I've still not heard from him in a... | |
| Thiel Owners unsound - the Sonic Frontier (model unknown) preamp driving the Krell FPB 600 is what I heard when auditioning the final prototype of the 2.7 compared with the reference 3.7 in Thiel's listening room on my 2012 visit to Lexington. I have personall... | |
| Thiel Owners Fitter - I remember a long run with a Sonic Frontiers gold unit. But I’m not very confident in that memory or if it persisted till the end. Does Sonic Frontiers ring any bells? | |
| Thiel Owners Fitter - FWIW, that Krell is what Jim used to design the CS7s and I believe everything else for the next ten or so years. | |
| Thiel Owners J - thanks for the lead. My purchases are on hold until I find a new workplace; unless, of course, something drops into my lap. I don’t really know the SE status - here’s what I think I know: The 2.4SE was introduced in 2008, which is about a year... | |
| Thiel Owners J - I offered his asking price and a pickup by my brother (local to him and Bill); and I never heard back. He seemed persuaded that he really wanted to keep the 3.5s. So, I've re-contacted him through the ad for his firm determination. Thanks for ... | |
| Thiel Owners jusam - a note about the CS1s. The CS1.2 was designed as Jim got his feet wet with Finite Element Analysis. Its drivers included our first aluminum tweeter and our first use of copper shunting rings and sculpted gap pieces in the woofers. As such ... |