Thiel Owners

pops, I love both the ATCs and the Thiels.  Both are great products intended to be as accurate as possible but with somewhat different ways of going about it.  ATCs are usually active and the company is mainly known for pro audio.  ATC has been building its own drivers for a long time and their philosophy is that if you build drivers well enough you don't need a complex crossover.  I think Thiel is not that far from that.  Thiel produced passive speakers for home audio so they have different strengths.  Thiel had complex crossovers for a long time to fix drivers that weren't as good as they could have been.  When Thiel came out with their own drivers the complexity of the crossover dropped significantly per Tom Thiel in this thread.  

The founders/designers of both companies were piano players.  They're both hard science guys.  I get the impression that Billy Woodman isn't quite the obsessive perfectionist that Jim Thiel apparently was. Both companies use small diameter midranges which I've found that I prefer. Not sure why, lighter weight leads to faster response or maybe better dispersion.  

Prof: " Folks, for those who blew drivers, like the 2.7/3.7 coax, what were the sonic symptoms? Did the sound just die? Or did a crackle develop in the sound....something like that?"
first time:  scratchy sound though i think it was bad from the get go as it happened within two months, or perhaps the amp, a Marantz reference,  was not up to par.2nd time:  with BHK amp-got the crackle you referred to and it was really obvious something was wrong and Rob said it was blown.3rd time:  with BHK-weird as it was more of a hum,  almost like the unit was singing with the music, but it added something really weird to the sound.  Rob can usually fix them but this one stumped him if i recall. 

thank you Tom.   maybe you can get Rob to join us here.

prof: I have to agree with you. I'm running 23 feet of 10 gage Blue Jeans cable between a Bryston 4Bsst2 and a pair of Thiel 2.7s

Couldn't ask for anything better, including the cost of having Blue Jeans make them for me - - and with spades. 

Yes brayeagle, it’s great to have custom made stuff from Blue Jeans. I’m going to have some interconnect made, short and long.


They have really low capacitance interconnects which is great for some long runs I need, especially to my subwoofers. Though admittedly the really low capacitance of the BJ cables may be overkill for a subwoofer signal which is being low-passed ...what the heck...a little over-engineering never hurt.