James63
What concerns Thiel I have to mention that I was a great fan of Thiel products for many years. I very admire the Jim Thiel’s passion of making the good sounding speakers. He was faithful to the idea of coherent source and developed all their products in this direction.
It is not easy to compare CS3.7 to Magico V2 because I have auditioned them in quite different conditions. The room was twice as big as mine, the electronics were different (all Ayre system) and cabling were MIT. The room was undamped with hard stone floor so it was much more live than mine. However Thiel excels in tight and quite deep bass and pin-point localization instruments in the sondstage. I suppose that in such conditions CS3.7 were able to create more deep soundstage. Magico V2 auditioned in my setup excels in extremely high quality trebles – presentation of high tones were mind-blowing. I also did not heard the speaker so free from any colorations as V2. The sound was so neutral and well defined. Thiel are also neutral but not as imposing. I did not try CS3.7 in my system as this model is to big for my room and do not have enough space to breathe.
I also found all Thiels to have their own house sound. My taste has changed a bit and now I found Thiels sounding a little dry to my taste. However I still claim that Thiels have one of the best price-performance ratio in the market.
What concerns Thiel I have to mention that I was a great fan of Thiel products for many years. I very admire the Jim Thiel’s passion of making the good sounding speakers. He was faithful to the idea of coherent source and developed all their products in this direction.
It is not easy to compare CS3.7 to Magico V2 because I have auditioned them in quite different conditions. The room was twice as big as mine, the electronics were different (all Ayre system) and cabling were MIT. The room was undamped with hard stone floor so it was much more live than mine. However Thiel excels in tight and quite deep bass and pin-point localization instruments in the sondstage. I suppose that in such conditions CS3.7 were able to create more deep soundstage. Magico V2 auditioned in my setup excels in extremely high quality trebles – presentation of high tones were mind-blowing. I also did not heard the speaker so free from any colorations as V2. The sound was so neutral and well defined. Thiel are also neutral but not as imposing. I did not try CS3.7 in my system as this model is to big for my room and do not have enough space to breathe.
I also found all Thiels to have their own house sound. My taste has changed a bit and now I found Thiels sounding a little dry to my taste. However I still claim that Thiels have one of the best price-performance ratio in the market.