Thiel Owners

@Pwhinson, a first order cross-over might be the only cross-over capable of time and phase coherence. The single driver Quad ESL 63’s and the quasi-multi driver Ohm Walsh, etc.,  did it without an electrical cross-over. Even with a first order cross-over a multi driver loudspeaker will need physically staggered drivers, and as you pointed out wide bandwidth drivers, that will in all probablility need compensating components added to the first order cross-overs to behave as as a time and phase coherent loudspeaker system.

pwhinson
Nice! score on the 20.7 loudspeakers. Between these new speakers and your CS 2.4 speakers, you will have the best of both worlds.  Happy Listening!

Thanks!  I am excited about the Magnepans.  I'm not giving up my Thiels though!  These are in a different league than the Magnepans of the past in terms of coherence and bass delivery.  I heard deep real bass and an apparently seamless frequency range so they've improved that ribbon tweeter, or the crossover.  Or both.  I should have them in a few days and will report back.  I had some small Magnepans about 30 years ago and outside of small ensemble / chamber music they weren't very worthwhile.  These are in another class all together.  

The long-term mutually productive relationship between Thiel and Magnepan may be of interest here. We shared a large majority of our dealers. Dave Gordon came from Magnepan to be Thiel's national sales manager for a decade or more, when he returned there. Both products were well driven by the same source chains. But their presentation was fundamentally different. A Thiel speaker acts as a point source, reproducing what the microphone heard (if we ignore all chain anomalies.) A Magnepan acts as a large dipole, creating its signature sound field in the playback room (augmenting what the microphone heard.) The two approaches aren't really competitive, they are thoroughly different. It is not uncommon for listeners to have two systems, one built around each type of speaker. 

One of Thiel's first reviews was from Scott Estes writing for "The Sensible Sound", who was and remained a committed Magnepan user. He appreciated in print the Thiel presentation, but he wasn't tempted to trade in his Maggies. Hello Scott, if you're out there.

The tweeter and the midrange of the left speaker of my 3.5 just do not work. I was listening at high volume in the attempt to override the hiss and noise from the right channel when all of a sudden only the woofer was working. Any tought? Anyone with the same issue? Thank you