Thiel Owners

Hi Dave, at the risk of appearing petty my 3.5’s have a sensitivity of 88 dB, and my room volume is probably a bit larger than most. High volume levels in music is most often short term so it’s not really at all uncomfortable or unsafe. Still your points have merit. Peace.

"I too have been at this for a few decades"

How old is everyone? There is a lot of experience here...
I am 58.

65
While I've been into vinyl for 40 years , cassettes before that ,
I've only been " at it " seriously for the last 10 .
Learned a lot from a friend nkonor but never really applied it until
recently , the kids are grown ( still costing me with education expenses  )
and I have reached an income level that I can spend on my hobby.
Wish I started a few years earlier , vinyl has gone up in price,
but at the same time equipment has improved by leaps and bounds.

For Black Friday I purchased acoustic panels from Acoustimac
to replace my homemade piecemeal setup , waiting for delivery !

I’m freaking 60, very soon to turn 61, and since becoming a member on this lunatic site around 4 years ago I’ve burned through quite a few dollars on everything in the most futile of pursuits - perfection.  

Obviously my chronological advance has not yet graced me with wisdom. I doubt it ever will, perhaps when I cease advancing I may find it. 

Anyway - as close to a reasonable facsimile of perfection as one may get in this hobby is Thiel. 
Speakers HAVE to cost more than these to be better - and from my limited “high end” auditions over the last few years the only other manufacturer that comes even close is Magnepan.  I’m a fan of both.  I simply can’t find sonic or financial reasons sufficient to consider blowing a few thousand bucks on other brands that might do one or even a couple of things “better”,  especially when none in my $$ wheelhouse do everything as well as Thiel does. 

IMHO Pass Labs  and Thiel represent amazing sonics. I’m still trying to get my 3.6’s to shine as my 3.5’s did.  I don’t think I’ll be getting there soon.  I may be selling my 3.6’s to find another pair of 3.5’s.  Something about those suckers that connects with me where the 3.6’s do not. 

To each his own. 

As long as it’s Thiel!

Sorry unsound - for some reason I thought you had the 3.6s, not the 3.5s..

oblgny - just curious what you like better about the 3.5s then the 3.6s?  

As for me, I'm 46.  I started early when I mowed lawns to get a pair of Adcom separates and Canton speakers.  Been hooked ever since..