Interesting thread bump. And quite an education in how differently people can see things.
d_edwards for instance saying the CS6 was a step backwards and the worst speaker Thiel ever made was bizarre. I'd compared it to the various Thiels up to that point and the CS6 was easily my favorite. I'd first encountered it producing, for me, the best sound at CES, hooked up to some VAC amplification. I got hold of a pair (while I was reviewing speakers) and it was the best speaker I ever had in my room up to that point (and still top two, probably only beaten by the 3.7s). I remember someone close to Jim reporting it was Jim's favorite Thiel speaker (at least before the 3.7 re-design).
Then, truly crossing into the Twilight Zone, jafox raved about replacing Thiels with the Talon Khorus and Peregrine! Around the same time I also tried Talon speakers and they sounded so bad - so dark and colored - I had to call over another reviewer pal to see if I was crazy. I wasn't. They sounded so obviously colored that I had to ask if they were broken (not broken in...broken). Turns out they weren't broken, that was how they sounded (and I seem to remember Talon speakers measured really poorly...though can't be sure about that memory at this point).
Take home of all this: don't trust other people's opinions, including mine ;-)
d_edwards for instance saying the CS6 was a step backwards and the worst speaker Thiel ever made was bizarre. I'd compared it to the various Thiels up to that point and the CS6 was easily my favorite. I'd first encountered it producing, for me, the best sound at CES, hooked up to some VAC amplification. I got hold of a pair (while I was reviewing speakers) and it was the best speaker I ever had in my room up to that point (and still top two, probably only beaten by the 3.7s). I remember someone close to Jim reporting it was Jim's favorite Thiel speaker (at least before the 3.7 re-design).
Then, truly crossing into the Twilight Zone, jafox raved about replacing Thiels with the Talon Khorus and Peregrine! Around the same time I also tried Talon speakers and they sounded so bad - so dark and colored - I had to call over another reviewer pal to see if I was crazy. I wasn't. They sounded so obviously colored that I had to ask if they were broken (not broken in...broken). Turns out they weren't broken, that was how they sounded (and I seem to remember Talon speakers measured really poorly...though can't be sure about that memory at this point).
Take home of all this: don't trust other people's opinions, including mine ;-)