Thiel Owners

Hello Jafant and company,

Reading through this entire thread, I feel as if I know you all well by now!

My introduction to Thiels came via a beautiful pair of CS 3.5s that I quickly fell in love with. Since then I've had my eye on someday owning the elusive 3.7s. Well that chance finally came a few days ago when I bit the bullet on that black pair (Sorry, Jonandfamily... Hope you get the next pair!)

Was originally going to do a road trip from NYC to pick them up in Tulsa, but ended up having them shipped.. Yikes!.. Fingers crossed that they make the trip safely. Will report back when they arrive.

arniespin...

As you may have read have been an ardent proponent of the 3.5's here, recently acquiring a pair of elusive (for me) 3.6's that somehow came and went now and again until I bought a pair from Chicago.  Yikes!  Shipping!

All the previous models I owned I bought semi-locally, the furthest being my first pair of 3.5's which were located in Massachusetts. The others were within about 50-75 miles from my house. I was fearful of having them shipped and when 3.6's came around most were across the country - so I balked time and time again. 

Then the pair of 3.6's popped up for $1300 in Chicago.  I hesitated. Then I figgered it might be my last chance. They strapped 'em to pallets for $300 and...well, I finally got 'em. 

As a means of relating how cool this thread is, I had a fellow member on the site contact me to say that the speakers were in excellent shape. He lives about an hour from the store that I purchased from and went to check them out himself. He had no interest in telling me that other than being a Thielista himself. Cool stuff. 

Welcome - hope they show up perfect!

I've had pretty much all my speakers shipped, usually from the USA to Canada.  So far no problems, but I have to say if anything is going to cure me of my speaker obsession it's shipping and receiving - I think I'm done shipping big speakers!  What a hassle.

arniespin,

You deserve these because I did what I have done before....hesitated because of the distance between me and the 3.7s. I did not want to chance the shipping. I could not convince my wife that we needed a vacation to Tulsa. I thought I had worked out a deal for him to personally deliver them to Birmingham for 4K, but I think my extra money wasn't worth the 22 hour round trip.

I was lucky to find a mint pair of CS3.6s for $1.2K about 100 miles from me 5 years ago, and I have bought and sold several speakers since then never bettering the magic I get with my Thiels. This included the Revel Ultima Salon2s which lasted only about a month before I sold them. Boy, were they a disappointment, and I had to crate and freight those across the country over 2000 miles.

Yes, welcome arniespin and I look forward to hearing your impressions of the 3.7s. Also, I think most of us would like to hear about the rest of your system. Maybe you can add your "virtual system" to Audiogon.

Cheers, Jon

AH, Found the Thiel thread. Just got a pair of CS2 and am putting it through the paces. Powered by a Modwright KSA 150 SE with a 9.0 Anniversary Pre. Marantz SA-11 SACD player.  Only had them for 2 days and hav not had time for a good session or time to read this thread, but my initial impressions are that these are sweet sounding speakers. More to follow. Jeff