Thiel Owners

Pau Ferro (Amberwood / Morado) is an excellent-sounding wood. My main business is supplying tonewood to guitarmakers. We introduced Morado to that world in the mid 90s and it is considered by many to be the sonically-preferred fingerboard stock, as well as highly regarded for acoustic guitar body wood. Like Maple, it has virtually no open pores and is a joy to finish. Be careful, about 15% of people exhibit a poison-ivy-like reaction to the dust. Wear gloves and a mask when working it.

tomthiel,

More interesting info.  Thank you.

I once had Thiel CS6s in my house, in Pau Ferro and they were beautiful.  Still one of the nicest speaker finishes I've seen.

Hi guys, 
I'm from Italy and newbie here, happy to join to this vaste Thiel's enthusiast community.
I just bought my first pair of Thiel loudspeakers , the wonderful cs3.6, found them  very well maintained after all these years. These artworks are currently driven by a McCormack TLC-1 pre amp and the amazing McCormack DNA-2 Deluxe (bought a week later than Thiels), what to say.....I feel absolute happiness, still to early to give an appropriate and deep review but for sure I'm getting the best sound since ever.
To me nowadays is very hard to find better sounding loudspeakers system even compared to the same original retail price, sad to know how the Thiel's story ended, Jim will remain in our hearts forever, for sure, simply a genius with our same  passion: music at its best!
Let me spend also some words of admiration to Steve McCormack having made and still doing such a pieces of electronics.
I'll never sell both Thiel and McCormack components, for sure.

Greetings from Italy,
Silvano

Welcome! silvanikI concur in that Thiel and McCormack are sonic matches. It seems that the CS 3.6 model is gaining momentum on the 3.5 owners. Glad you found us.I look forward in reading more about your system, musical tastes Silvano.Thank You / Grazie.
Happy Listening!

First for prof, I wasted a perfectly good day reviewing your thread involving your speaker journey. Fantastic, and I greatly admire your ability to discern and articulate what you hear. Wonder if you could do the same for some of the Thiel speakers, in particular comparing the 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 in this thread. I believe that you may be able to clarify what the differences are and help me justify keeping my speakers or upgrade. Tried to create a playlist on Tidal with some of your reference material, but need to trim it down a little. Helped me better appreciate what you were pointing out.
I did some testing with Room Equalizer Wizard and the Thiel and DBX equalizers. Only just scratched the surface, not really understanding all the variables at play. Made my meaurements from the listening position and not in close proximity to the speakers, so room factors were present, although constant for all measurements. Used pink noise track as source and did RTA checks on different settings. Discovered that the Thiel equalizer is not working properly in the 20 HZ setting, even though Rob fixed it last year. It may be the switch as the next day I was able to determine that the 40 HZ setting had less bass in comparison. The more I read, the more complex it all is and an equalizer can only do a small contribution. The comparison with DBX did not reveal any clear improvement. The DBX has a balanced output (as well as unbalanced) and needed more gain to match the unbalanced output from the Thiel equalizer to sound equally loud on the bryston amp. Here were some conclusion that I hate to draw:Maybe it is the age of my speaker showing but they certainly were not able to reproduce anything within 3db from 20-20K. Below 40 HZ there was more than 10 db drop and likewise on the 14K side. Ignorance is bliss.