Thiel 2.3 vs 2.4 the real difference

As I typed, I had both Thiels, side by side, in my room and the 2.3 is already 90% of a 2.4. Maybe 98%. Few people really do side by side listening. We all know how erratic sound memory can be when the element of time is involved.

Tim McTeague

Tim, care to tell us a little about the Linkwitz Orions?

Tim, from my original post with the 2.3 and 2.4 side-by-side for hours I suggested they *were* very close, with the 2.4 doing just a couple things a bit better. Depending on what's important to you and the subjective metric of "%", yeah, the 2.3 is 90+% of the 2.4.

My last post was saying that of the 2.4's ~10% improvement, you might be able to make up 90% of that 10% difference with 2.4 drivers and xover in a 2.3, the balance being their tweaks to the oval passive radiator tuning and enclosure (external & internal).

Like yourself though, I'll probably move to an entirely different speaker brand eventually when (if) I feel a need to replace the 2.3s...

In my own personal experience, side by side testing is sometimes not revealing of differences, unless you have first spent quite a bit of time listening to each of them on it's own. I don't know why. I assume it's because your ear somehow learns the character of each of the different speakers. It sounds like you have done that though.
Art

Art, I agree with what you said, but in my case I was intimately familiar with my 2.3s. But not with the dealer's (excellent) room and equipment. As the 2.4 is so similar, it was the differences to the well-known 2.3 that stood out pretty clearly. No doubt if I replaced the 2.3s with 2.4s in my own room & equipment, I'd hear a lot more of the subtleties between the two. But that wasn't an option at the time and I just don't think the differences are much more significant than what I heard in a different space.