Thiel Owners

Tom, very interesting! Could you describe more about your gears to run cs 2 2s and 1.5s? And how to position them (distance against walls and each other)? Thank you^_^!  I always think about two identical  pairs for back-to-back and not know it's ok with different models. If I use 7.2 and 3.7s, will they match each other?

thielrules, No, I’ve always preferred the 3.5’s. You might be thinking of “oblgny”.

Yes, it was I who preferred the 3.5 over the 3.6 for a number of quite personal reasons. (Ain’t they all?)

Like most folks would logically assume, moving up the Thiel line means mo’ better everything, correct?
While there was absolutely nothing to fault the 3.6’s for, the sonic difference between the two was, to my ears, REMARKABLY different.  Only when I played my music at higher volume than I normally do did the 3.6 strut it’s “Thieliness”. 

And many of us here know already how much I love the Thiel sonics.  Too bright?  My butt!

While I am not qualified to offer an opinion based on the technical specifications differentiating the two, my humble ears preferred the 3.5’s - everything was just THERE immediately at modest level, while the 3.6 only started to shine at a higher listening level. 

Which is no knock on the sonics of the 3.6.  I got mine for $1600 shipped from Chicago - which is a truly “stupid” price to pay for speakers of Thiel quality.  

The duration and number of posts in this thread alone is pretty damn amazing.  It’s by far and away one the most civil and informational threads on the site. 

Hello everybody, I live in Italy and own a pair of CS3.5. When I read that Mr. Gillum was repairing Thiel speakers, I shipped the CS3.5 bass equalizer for him to restore.
He finally received it last May, 5th and by mail told me it would take a couple of days to check it. Not receiving any reply within a reasonable time I decided to email back two days ago with no luck. So I called many times during normal working hrs in KY and again only answering machine. So today I sent a email to Mr. Tom Thiel, Thiel's former co-founder and to this forum.
Maybe Mr Gillum is just very busy, and I truly hope so, that he is unable to reply and still had no time to get back with me, or he lost my email, but if somebody can tell me how to contact him I would appreciate.
Thank you
Dino

Hi Everyone!! 

I joined the AVS forum and posted there but it seems like all the Thiel Heads are here in numbers :)  I need some feed back before I make a large mistake and might have made one all ready but you tell me. I am 52 yro and 4 months ago heard the first Audiophile system and can believe I have been under a rock for so looong! I'm hooked hard, so like many of you I started to READ and Read, was to many hours hear on Audiogon. Was very close to purchasing KEF Ref series 2ch/HT then got drank the Vandersteen kool-aid after hearing Quarto & 7's I have quotes from three Vandersteen dealers and was very very close. Then two months ago I told myself this is insane! go get a simple system so i could start playing around with Tidal and other Hi-res sources while i READ MORE I could atleast listen to some music finally! So I marched into Stereo Unlimited and was going to buy a Vandy 3 sig or next model up to use with a SIMPLE Peachtree Nova 300 that had good reviews and was guilt free if i was only going to use for short time. Well sitting there was a pair of Thiel CS 2.7's I ended up buying them a WOW,,,,, I understand Thiels are hard to run, etc etc,,, but this Peachtree is a match!! sounded better than the Vandy Quarto being run with monster VTL mono tubes and VTL pre amp,  After 2  months of listening and reading I went on a Thiel hunt, My goal is to have in one room a 2ch/HT ALL Thiel w/atmos and in another room just two channel. For the two channel room I bought CS 3.7 and will run with Peachtree I have already. In other room I bought MCs 1' for center. CS 1.7 for rears, 4 Power point 1.2 for atmos and two SS2 theil subs and will use the CS 2.7's that started this rampage.  Sorry for long winded intro post. So the first question is what HT processor and amps to run it? Does any one have first hand running Mcintosh with Thiel? I could only find two thiel subs would you run both in HT/2ch and buy a Rel for 2ch 3.7 room or split one sub in each system? was also going to ad a Bluesound streamer to both systems so I can run 2ch on two systems at once for whole home coverage. Thank you!! and nice to meet the group. Dan