Thiel Owners

@batman I believe Thiel used Straightwire as their cable supplier for most models. Funny enough, I am using SW Mastro II SC with both my 3.6 and CS6. It is just a great cable that has beaten out many higher priced cables in my system, too many to mention in one thread!

Great synergy, not sure internal wiring has anything to do with it but a great match nontheless. I owned SW Virtuoso R SC for a while and preferred the Maestro.

I did a cable shootout using the Cable Company years ago when SW was still making the Maestro and determined it to be the best sub 1K cable in my system. Later, I ventured off into many way more expensive cables and always ended up putting the Maestro’s back in. Could have saved alot of dough....but at least now I know.

It is really the only time I have used the cable company to make an educated choice and it was time well spent.

Thiel has used the same internal wire since the 03 in 1978, before the time that wire became a component. We identified a high purity, long crystal, oxygen-free polished wire in teflon jacket, developed for the aerospace avionics industry. That wire, twisted at 2.5 per inch does the job in separate runs from input terminals to XO and XO to each driver, with no shared grounds, etc. The wire is a known component of the XO network, so all its factors are measured and listened to as system characteristics.

When ITT / Florida stopped making that wire, StraightWire developed an equally excellent source and Thiel used that exclusively going forward.

This internal wire is a different animal from amp to speaker cable runs which must be engineered without knowing source or load or ambient impedance, capacitance, length of run and so forth.

Hi Jon_5912, if the price is per pair, then the pricing makes complete sense to me!  I must have missed that point, so thanks for the clarification.    

Hi pops, thanks for sharing your experience with SW.  Very interesting indeed!  I haven't spent much time with cabling other than making sure it's sufficient gauge (all at least 10awg).  However, as I finalize all my components, I'm sure I'll reach the point where cables will be the last area I want to investigate.

Thank you Tom for your thoughts.  Your comments that the internal wire is a different animal from the amp-2-speaker one does make me want to revisit just going with SW without auditioning others.  Maybe I should just save up my money and go with Goertz AG3!  Can't argue with the equipment Jim used himself, at least as a starting point.  Do you happen to know why Jim didn't demo the 3.7s with Goertz, but used SW?  Is it because SW just offered to front the equipment and marketing?  Not sure how the industry works...