Thiel Owners

I have been away and didn't keep up with thread, Wow lots of cool conversations! and the analogy of talking about your kids!! HA so true,  loved all the albums everyone shared and really rekindled some music,  ! The Doors and the Sound track to Blade runner... oboy what a treat for the Thiels!  I also laughed my ass off counting how many Gibson models were in attendance but then cried when I saw what Corvett01 sold his for.  Prof had me flashing back to my youth and the days of the Hustle with the Saturday Night Fever. These box's we all share are Thiel Time Machines! For the record I wasn't 100% disco. I remember seeing the Who in Shea Stadium (loudest concert on record) and the Palladium and Studio 54 that same night!  Sorry for rambling.

  Mr Tom Thiel question will this amp work with 2ch/home Theater? CS2.7 as main Msc1 center cs 1.7 rear   https://classeaudio.com/ca-5300/   I have left them a few messages asking for 4 ohm 2 etc...  Thought Tom or someone here might know some history. I was going to run all 9 speakers with PS audio M700 but now just the 4 atmos power plain 1.2  Thank you all for the album sharing again.  Dan
                

Good to have you back in the fold of things - dancastagna
I wonder as well how many are using a newer or more recent, 2000 and forward, Classe' power amp?  The 90's models seem to be coveted.
I guess we all can query about an older, 1999 and backward, Krell or Mark Levinson?
Happy Listening!

Dan, I don't know that amp. The power specs look great and they withhold the lower impedance specs due to AC-mains overload with all channels firing. Nothing like a real audition to prove its merits to you.

Audition not possible, I have watched the 5300 sell in a day or so but the 5200 linger. Thank you for helping the newbe! I know this is a really bad topic but you guys know better than anyone,  the seller of amp has a pair         https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis91f0c-mcintosh-cs3m-speaker-cables-2-meter-pair-speaker   will these work with 2.7 ?

There are well respected amplifiers that don't double. Ayre, for example.

Ayre doesn't give a 2 Ohm spec but not sure why you wrote this. Ayre specs *all* of their amps as doubling into 4 Ohms. The AX-5 JA measured did show signs of stress at 2 Ohms but otherwise reacted well as the current demand increased on his test bench. I have the Twenty version of the AX-5 which is said to have slightly improved power over the original version and I will attest that it sounds really effing good driving my CS2.4SEs  :)