Something about Thiel CS 3.7

Curio,

I'm a long time Thiel fan, had listened to the 3.7s, the 2.4 at one point long ago, had the CS6, 2.7 and 3.7s.

The 3.7s are the best speaker Thiel ever made, truly a culmination of his engineering talent and what he'd learned up to that point.   All sorts of innovations put them beyond the 2.4.

The coax drivers are more detailed, yet more relaxed and organic, than previous generations.   I've had many speakers but the 3.7s were probably the best: massive soundstage capabilities, but with super image precision and density, completely coherent from top to bottom in a way that make most other speakers sound like they are "trying."I auditioned a long list of current speakers and overall I found the Thiels performed better.

I had to downsize a bit to the 2.7s which are amazing, though not quite on the level of the 3.7s.

So, yes, the 3.7s would certainly be a step up from the 2.4s.

The 3.7s reached such a stage of innovation and refinement I'd feel confident many other speakers will be playing catch-up (and many failing) for years to come, to match such a coherent collection of traits in a speaker.

You can make a 3.7 sound great in a small room. Just need to select the right approach.

With my Class A stuff I found a tube based DAC really took the sound to a nice level. Great synergy.

With an all Benchmark stack using AHB2 monos, which is not warm sounding gear, I was also able to get tremendous sound. This is also what I use the most. The tube DAC was not a good with the Benchmark.

I think the Thiels pump out what you put in. When I have gear with great synergy the sound I from the 3.7 is great. Either warm gear or neutral gear. You do need a lot of power and my 3 amp choices are more than 300 watts at 4 Ohm. I definitely notice the difference with using about 180 watts at 4 Ohm. The sound did not open up as well with the bigger power.

My 2 cents if you really want to know how a 3.7 can sing try tube monoblocks like Jadis or VAC.

I've tried all kinds of SS amps with them but the best results i got by far is with PP tube amps.

thieliste

it appears that Curio has disappeared? Thank You for suggesting Tube amp(s) for the CS 3.7 loudspeaker.

 

Happy Listening!

yabe1951

Nice post and well said. Recently, I added a Hegel Mohican CD player to my collection. This spinner compliments AYRE gear very finely.

 

Happy Listening!