Thiel Owners

One advantage a manufacturer has is the ability to compare samples with 0 to hundreds of burn-in hours. Speakers, cables, caps. Very interesting what one hears with an open mind.

Wow. I’m so relieved to hear that things I don’t fully/technically understand I am able to HEAR. I fell in love with Thiel not because of what the specs are but the way these speakers SOUND. 

I almost feel proud. 

break-in is something that many engineering-oriented observers dismiss as voodoo or make-believe or user acclimation. From the very beginning, we perceived its reality beyond question, but have never developed any definitive causal narrativeeyond question, but have never developed any definitive causal narrative

Yes, thanks for sharing this perspective, Tom. I completely agree. I’ve experienced break-in not just from speakers but from electronics and, even, cables. Just because we can’t explain or measure it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. 

Beetle - that distinction may be the watershed between hi fi and high end. Hi fi, dominated by academic engineers, mathemeticians and physicists definitely listened with their fore-brains and negated the existence that couldn't at least be verified by double-blind ABX tests. High end, on the other hand, broke through myriad barriers because they/ we believed what we heard. When the cats payed attention, we really took something seriously . . . the cats didn't even read the specs.