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Scoring on Used Thiels here

Has anyone scored a great deal on used Thiels here lately?   With Thiel going under, there appear to be a lot of good deals on used THiels here for takers.   Anyone picked used Thiels up here recently and regretted it?

Just wondering.    Some of the used prices look too good to pass up.
128x128mapman
unsound
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I suggest getting as much bass as you can. IMHO, Thiel's might sometimes sound a bit tilted up without lower octave support.

 With the various Thiel's models I think you'll find that the heights of the cabinets vary more than the actual footprints. IMHO, the sloping baffles tend make the cabinets less visually obtrusive.

Something to keep in mind with Thiel's is that in order to appreciate all that Thiel's offer; one must be cognizant of placement and listening position.

I'm firmly in the camp of amps for speakers, not speakers for amps, and perhaps even more so with Thiel's.


unsound
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uberwaltz, been eyeing those myself, even though I don't need another pair.

 Unfortunately, Mapman's current integrated amps doesn't have a tape loop to accommodate the 3.5's eq. Too bad, as his room seems up to carrying that down to 20 Hz small foot print, not dropping below 4 Ohms, sealed box bass.

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uberwaltz
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@unsound 
Seller of the 3.5 says he sold the equalizer as he preferred the sound just going with a dedicated sub so one would need to find that.
Probably cause for the low $500 price.
unsound
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^Still not bad, but not the quite the exceptional value they first appeared to be. The appropriate eq's can be found, though I’ve noticed the prices of which have been escalating.
beetlemania
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thiel 2.4 or 2.7 are probably as big as I would go.   Might fly without the sub. Or maybe 1.6 or 1.7. I saw a pair of 1.6 s at a local dealer a while back.
I agree with unsound, get as much bass as you can afford. I went from the CS1.6 (no audible bass below 50 Hz in my room) to Vandersteen 2Ce Sig II (audible bass to mid 20s) and I could never go back to a speaker that can't go below 35-40. Also, the CS1.6 has a distortion/resonant mode in the upper midrange/lower treble. This was only apparent, to my ears, on certain recordings of female vocalists and at high SPLs. The CS1.7 has an updated woofer, so maybe not a problem with that model.

At any rate, the CS2.4 is a great speaker. My CS2.4SEs are as transparent, open, and resolved as anything I've heard south of $10K. In fact, I think they approach the very best I've heard regardless of price in those parameters (tbf, I can't do a direct comparison). Rob Gillum is going to offer "hot rod" kits for Thiels. I'm guessing an upgrade to the capacitors on a CS2.4 would make it competitive with most anything new up to $20K, maybe higher.
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