Thiel Owners

Nice thread!  I've actually been thinking about "where are the Thiel owners these days?" as well.

I was on here quite a bit last year as I fretted about which set of Thiels to buy.  Huge fan of the old CS6s, and struggled between buying a second hand pair of the "newer" 2.7 or 3.7.

I ended up with a nice pair of 3.7s from audiogon and have had a great time pairing them with my CJ monoblocks and even sometimes with my tiny Eico HF-81  (flabbier bass...but oh that huge, golden Eico midrange combined with the Thiel clarity and transparency is pretty magical).

I've got them working very well in my smallish room, very even sounding, no bass bloat.  But at this point I'm wondering if I might have been better off with a pair of 2.7s that I had been interested in.  They had my favorite composite ebony finish.  They would have probably been a better fit aesthetically for me.

So sad the real Thiels are no longer....

(And the Thiel website doesn't even seem to be up to date or working either.  I wonder how they are doing).

I just noticed that Thiel has a Facebook or Tweet account.  Perhaps you can get in touch with them there,

Here's some food for thought...

For the past twelve months or so I've been buying/selling equipment like I'm going to the chair.  2 McIntosh pieces,  Von Schweikert speakers.  etc.  etc.  etc.  Ridiculous!

Somewhere in the middle of last year I purchased a Marantz TT-15 turntable.  According to my sales guy Bob at Audio Den in beautiful downtown Lake Grove,  it's essentially a Clearaudio unit badged with the Marantz logo.  (There's really no downtown here,  nor is there a lake,  nor a grove.)  Having never had a "true" phono preamp other than those little pro-ject or other manufacturer small boxes,  I was able to scoop up a Primare phono stage for a very nice price used here on the 'Gon.  IMHO,  an excellent phono stage.  I like the brand.

Anyway,  I went back there the other day just to see what's new and I was convinced to buy a Primare i22 integrated...It's a class d amp which can put out around 160 watts into 4 ohms - sufficient enough for my listening levels.  Primare builds everything from the ground up,  nothing inside it is outsourced like so many other class d amps.

Unfortunately,  there was no way to hook up the CS 3.5's crossover to the integrated...so back it went.  I can't believe I returned something because I might have to part with my Thiels...

Where are you located -oblgny?

Primare gear is too rolled off for my taste.