Thiel or Sonus Faber??...Need help please

the guarneris will not give you deep bass, although the midrange is superb. what about the sonus faber cremona? it's a floorstander( some say it's a bigger version of the guarneris ) . the other option is the vienna acoustics strauss or mahler. i quite like the sound of the mahlers with ARC amps...plenty of deep bass for rock music but still sweet and warm.

good hunting!

I don't know of any monitor speaker, that has the prodigious bass your 3.5s deliver. After the 3.5s you'll never be satisfied, with monitors, unless you go with a sub. My Revel M20s with Sistrum Monitor Speaker Platforms and a Sunfire Architectural sub with Sistrum stand, go where no 3.5 (3.6, 2.2,) can go. Trust me, I use to own the 1.5s. While bass shy, compared to the 3.5s, similar in other ways. Watch where you're going to go from here. This post may go to Pluto. Fasten your seatbelt: "warp factor I" The 'gon will take care of you.
warren

I am trying to evaluate speakers myself at present, and I have two important messages:

1. Audiogon has helped me to create an excellent short list of speakers to listen to. However, in EVERY case, a listening session changed my interpretation of what I had read.

2. Be sure, ABSOLUTELY sure, that it is your speakers that are the problem. I have upgraded electronics over the past year and I am very inclined to contradict the "golden paradigm", namely that speakers are the most important thing in the audio chain. Speakers are almost always blamed for problems that really reside upstream.

I would evaluate my electronics very carefully before I required new speakers to do something which they may not be able to do.

Best of luck.

I moved from 3.5's to SF Electa Amators. I did miss the bottom end and added a REL Storm sub-woofer. Later upgraded once more to SF Extrema - the REL has been relegated to the home theater. I've never looked (or listened) back. IMHO there is no comparison between these manufacturers at the upper end of their respective lines.

I have very good results with the Guarneri's in combination with the SF Gravis subwoofer.