Thiel Owners

Yeah I know 70 db should be no problem for any decent speaker.  As I mentioned I do like to crank it more when I'm listening from a distance, so that's when I have to watch it.  Though the Thiels are so clean, and have such punch, it's hard not to keep turning them up for Van Halen, dance music etc. ;)

BTW, as someone who has numerous speakers, spade connectors drive me nuts.  I much prefer bananas for the ease of use.

@prof How often do you swap connections? Spade connection is tough to beat for a solid transmission of the signal. Set it and forget it. 

Well, I used to swap more often than I do currently.  Maybe once a month or so.


And previous to that I used to do it almost every night.   That's because I used to use my home theater (Hales) speakers for two channel as well.  So I had speaker wire leads from my tube amps sitting near my HT L/R speakers, and when I wanted to use them for two channel I'd just unplug the speakers from my home theater cables, and plug in the cables to my 2 channel tube amps/sources.   So banana plugs were very easy to deal with. 


Still...I own at the moment 5 pairs of speakers that I swap in and out, so any connection that makes that easier is the one I prefer.