Thiel Owners

Incredible, GeoffKait trolling every forum thread, even the Thiel owners thread, for mention of his name.  It's a full time job apparently!

Anyway, enough of that, back to Thiel...

tomthiel

Another +vote for a book on Thiel Audio.   Happy Listening!

silvanik - in a twist of serendipity, I heard the 3.6's at that show in Milan, visiting Enrico Tricarico, Thiel's Italian distributor and prior football star. I think my visit was in 1992, when the 3.6 was first introduced. I spoke some Italian then, not much now, but I can read it a little from knowing Latin, which I do remember fairly well and has served me well in my travels in Latin language countries: Italy, Spain, France, Bolivia and Brazil, although Brazilian Portuguese is a pretty far stretch from the other languages. My understanding was good enough to save my life when lost in backwoods Brazil without my companion. That's another story, related to how I established Pau Ferro as our standard veneer in 1990 / CS2 2. There's no end to fun with wood.   Cheers.

I remember my first encounters with the Thiel 3.6 at a local high end store, in the 90's, where I got to play a bunch of my CDs.

I had the distinct impression of "that's exactly what it sounded like" when the music was recorded, both in terms of the character and liveness of the instruments, and exact character of the recording itself, and no obvious character/resonance etc from the speaker. 

I think it was one of my first encounters with a really neutral, accurate sounding speaker.   I'd had a similar impression listening to Quad ESL 63s, but it was the first time I heard that from a "box" speaker.