Thiel Owners


Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
128x128jafant
Regarding measurements - some of you have probably seen Jim's setup. It was home-brew, but quite extensive. Of interest is that the swept sine wave told more about some aspects, and his "bleeper" which was 1/3 octave tone-bursts, told different aspects more clearly, and pink noise again a different shade of meaning. He correlated these chamber tests with outdoor normal plane and ground plane and up-firing from the sand pit. Part of his witches' brew was how he weighed and rolled with all those variants. When we went to the listening room, he would spread out graphs so that he and we could correlate different aspects with what we heard . . and make progress decisions.

Of note is that when New Thiel took over, they trashed Jim's gear and replaced it with a Klippel rig. Rob now has that rig, but neither of us has approached it yet.
tomic601
Nice score on the Ref5SE. A very fine pre-amp that I have heard several times. Mates well with solid state or tubed power amp(s).
Happy Listening!
tomthiel
Thank You for the mention of Rob's obtaining Jim's rig. Good to learn that all has not been lost forever.  Did Jim leave you with any gear or tools of his trade?
Happy Listening!
@jafant i have had the 5se a long time, 2011 I think.... I am fortunate to have it.
@tomt one recent development I am quite excited about is a German laser scanning machine for evaluation of drivers pistonic behavior- excellent Vandersteen video of two drivers side by side test results.... lots of out of phase trash in the pass band on the comparison driver. I mention this because I believe this is a key key way to move the art forward- we need more pistonic AND affordable drivers!!!!!
the scan costs $500