Thiel Owners

I had settled on MIT back in the 90's when I was originally pushing my 2.2's with Adcom. Can't remember which/what, I did upgrade to a better MIT I was so impressed and had big gray boxes everywhere. I'd even tried out Cardas and Audioquest from friends and was pretty meh.


However, when I got my BAT amp & pre, I wanted to get some balanced interconnect cable to take advantage of that. At the time I got a screaming deal on PS Audio Xstream everything as they were discontinuing everything but the power cable. So I figured I'd just buy everything I could lay my hands on and replaced all my cable with PS. The speaker cable is short of comic though, truly garden hose stuff.


After it was broken in, I couldn't go back to the MIT. In fact, the cable seemed to be the final missing link. I'd seen measurements indicating that the VK-3iX measured much better using the balanced connects, that might have had something to do with it. But when I would swap out just speaker cable, there was still a notable difference. In the end, I really enjoy the PS and hope I can figure out a way to continue using the speaker cable. But the speaker cable was really short so that's going to be iffy. I do still have a box full o' MIT somewhere!

IMO the Kimbers , Audioquest and Cardas pair well with both Thiel and Vandersteen. The Canare in a shotgun biwire with good connections is also an extraordinary value.

tomic601 good call on the Kimber, 8TC is an extraordinary value and works extremely well with Thiels even better for me than 3035.  They can be lean in the midrange with Thiels so system matching is imperative.  I have also found Straightwire and Analysis Plus to work well.

I have found most quality stranded copper cables work will with Thiel and you don't need to spend long on cables.  I have learned that the hard way.

uncle_monkey

Thank You for reporting your experience with M.I.T. cabling.

Happy Listening!

pops

Thank You for suggesting Straightwire and Analysis Plus cabling options as well.

Happy Listening!