Thanks for the well wishes everyone. (Tom, I'll check out vitamin B. The therapy I'll be undergoing already involves a tiny "leap of faith" ;-) )
Dan,
Wow, you are a fellow Thiel nut! Until recently I had three Thiel speakers myself - 3.7, 2.7 and 02s.
As to the 7.2 vs CS6. I only heard the 7.2s once or twice for a demo long ago. But I have to admit the sound stayed with me quite strongly (or so I think). I remember especially some miles davis on the 7.2s (and I also listened to cuts from Brubeck's Time Out, among other). What I remember is the vividness of the sound: the size and solidity of the presentation, the sense that there was a physical, metal trumpet occupying a specific spot right in front of me. Not ghostly, but "there."
The solidity of the sticks on drums, the realism and solidity of the bass drum and the space it occupies in the solo on the Time Out record, etc.
It was a special sound vs all the other high end speakers of my acquaintance back then.
I don't have near the experience with that speaker that Tom has, but my brief brush with it has me place it at the top of the Thiel speaker hierarchy. I have no idea how that would hold up if I were able to compare them to the 3.7s over time, but that's the impression they left me.
