Thiel Owners

- "The best part, one does not have to spend big money, to make it happen. In fact, always buy used or demo and save a bit of coin. Every audiophile can afford quality cabling -you would be foolish otherwise." -

Completely agree!

As an example of this: I had the opportunity to own some very highly regarded - and expensive - Shunyata power cables.  Universally praised at that time.   Did I detect a difference?  With one of them, the most expensive, yes!  I was just about sold.  Then to double check, I had a friend help me blind test them against a standard military grade $15 power cable.  Turned out I couldn't actually hear any difference.  I often detected just the same "improvement" when the $15 cable was in the system.  The mind is funny like that :-)

So as you say, I didn't have to spend big money - that cheaper power cord was all the quality I needed - and agree it would have been foolish of me to choose otherwise ;-)

Precisely! oblgny-

I used Monster Cable spool wire and patch cords back in the 80's to the early 90's.  Around the mid-1990's I switched over to some entry level Tara Labs and it really made a difference (mid-fi gear at that juncture).

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Good to see you- prof

excellent example.  There are many hidden values to be discovered.
Appears that you found your in the form of a PC.

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Hello again- claero

I listen at high volumes. If your system is too bright at that level,  try experimenting with cables and power cords to "tone" down the presentation.

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I don’t suppose anyone here has heard the heretical new Thiel speakers?
Maybe at one of the audio shows? If so, any impressions?

I admit that the technical goals of Jim Thiel’s time/phase coherence are compelling to me. And one of the chief characteristics I hear in my Thiels vs other speakers is that last bit of tidyness and focus, where all the acoustic energy related to an individual instrument or voice seems all lined up in the right spot to create a palpable focus and density to images. Other speakers tend to sound somewhat more "vague," imaging-wise.

I want to attribute that to the time/phase coherence of the speakers. But I have to allow that it may not be, as there are debates about the audibility of such things, and maybe even some of my listening positions mean the time/phase is less coherent. But whatever causes it, the Thiels certainly seem to have the characteristics I’m talking about.

I also find the concept of timbral accuracy a fascinating and vexing one.
The Thiels sound exceedingly "right" tonally for instruments and voices.
Though I have also heard some speakers with an almost opposite approach - e.g. Joseph, Hales, Waveform, MBL and others - produce a tremendous sense of timbral realism as well. So which aspect of speaker design is most important in reproducing accurate timbre is still an unanswered question to my mind.