Thiel Owners


Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
jafant

tomthiel,


If you come across model O1s or O2s, the back panel will say Thiel - manufactured by Conceptions Electronics.



I just checked my pair of 02s and it looks like Thiel outsourced to more than one manufacturer.  Mine say on the back, manufactured by:

Heinl Electronics...in Canada.

They remain one of my all time favourite speakers.  They were owned by my girlfriend (now wife) and re-introduced me to the virtues of clarity and neutrality, after a number of years of buying big honking speakers suitable for shaking the walls. 
prof - there's always more. Our early years needed more rapid growth than we could produce. Our Canadian solution came with Russ Heinl, a Canadian distributor with good connections, knowledge and support. Canada had introduced tariffs for US goods, creating a cost opportunity for Canadian manufacture. Plus we were already supplementing our O-series cabinet supply from Soundwood in Toronto. I set up production in Canada for Canada with Soundwood cabinets and Heinl-produced crossovers with the same Solen-Canada caps and identical drivers that we were using. It all added up to a viable solution and the Canadian-made product sold in Canada is virtually identical to the Lexington-made product sold elsewhere. However, as our products became more sophisticated the outsource solution became unfeasible. We capped our year on year growth to 30% and brought all manufacturing in-house for the CS series.

tom,

I sure enjoy reading your posts about the Thiel backstory.

And...I would hope for a memory like yours at 70.  (Actually, I'd hope for a memory like that at my age, 54, and I don't have it!)
tomthiel

A most excellent discussion between andy2, prof and yourself. Thank You for more backstory and historical markers that made Thiel Audio a reckoning force.   Happy Listening!
Memory is an odd thing . . . often spotty and sometimes inaccurate on details, but very true to the major themes, people and events. I am appreciating the opportunity to re-access these memories from a very difficult and productive period of my life. Thank you.