Thiel Owners

@tomthiel, Sorry, I don't have much to add. I've never heard them, though I would welcome the opportunity. The company has managed to last despite having a limited number of retailers, which I think are all out west without any in the east. They don't seem to have much presence at the shows. Though the shows don't seem to garner much attention either, at least here in the east. They had unusual aesthetics, that might have discouraged some? Most of the attention they garnered was in regard to their time capabilities, rather than their dispersion characteristics. There are a few reviews on the web. Stereophile has a couple I think. The reviews though not negative weren't especially enthusiastic. I'm not aware of any reviewer's that properly measure the time prowess of such speakers. Which is a shame. As you know things like step response and square waves illuminate so much about a loudspeaker. The rest is just opinion (at best, at worst it might be crooked). Their longevity suggests some market viability, but I'm not sure how. The small "monitor" model was garnering some positive talk here on Audiogon, with the exception of one poster who seems to have an axe to grind, in that he takes any and every opportunity to take shots at them (some of those shots were obviously without merit).

As for dispersion etc.,  you may recall, I have been toying with the ideal of as close to flush wall/corner mounted drivers and room correction DSP for a while now, and am now trying to figure out if there would be a preference for point source or line array. The funny part of it was prior to this notion, I was considering mid room placed omnis .

A little knowledge can be dangerous, and the math for some of this goes way beyond my middle school physics.:-)