Thiel Owners

This thread reminds me of talking about your kids to your spouse.

You can’t really go on about how wonderful your kids are to anyone else. It would make them puke. But your spouse is someone who shares your feelings for your kids, so you can tell them every wonderful thing your kid did today.

And on that note, I can blab to my fellow Thiel owners: Spinning the Saturday Night Fever LP on the 2.7s now. Absolute heaven. Quick, tight, impactful kick drum, present dense snare drums, voices natural, every element delineated yet richly so, not at all clinical (as I’ve recently heard from some other speakers). I’m not just getting audiophile goodies; I’m getting the fun and verve of spinning records when I was young.

Played a new copy of John Coltrane’s Blue Train. Unbelievable. Sax, trumpet, so clear and present with their differing tonality - organic, not electronic and silvery. Drums with clarity and snap "right there" in the room. The stand up bass maintained tautness even from well outside my listening room down the hall.

Yeah, I can let go of the 3.7s without much regret.

Nice musical selections - prof

The MFSL gold cd set for SNF soundtrack are reference discs. Not sure if MoFi released a LP version?
Happy Listening!

jafant,
I have the MFSL gold CD for SNF and, yeah, it was a GREAT CD version.
I haven't really investigated the best pressings for SNF in vinyl - picked this one up at a record show and was told by someone in the know it's the most recent release.

The other thing about the coax driver design in both the 3.7 and the 2.7 is the coherency achieved!   Try as I might I just can not "hear out" any tweeter sound from the midrange.  It just sounds perfectly meshed together.  Even the most challenging material - sibilance on female singers, or listening to a violin play up and down it's highest registers - perfect coherence.  No mechanical tell-tale signs at all, just a voice, or instrument playing, without any cues the sound is passing between different drivers.

Prof, as a technical note, that wavy driver behaves better than any of the previous cone drivers as well as supports the tweeter wave-form launch very nicely. Therefore the direct series crossover path is simpler than any previous Thiel driver. Jim had always corrected for slope anomalies in all the drivers, which puts additional components in the signal path. In the x.7 models, fewer components are required because the fundamental driver performance is so good. Part of what you hear is the thrill of nothingness. 

I am glad to hear your enthusiasm.

My present work on prior models is to refine the required passive components to minimize their contribution to the signal. Most of the parts are on-hand for my PowerPoint experiments which will also inform beetlemania's CS2.4SE upgrade. We can't brag about vaporware, but I am pretty excited about the potential improvements.