Thiel Owners

Certainly running demanding speakers can cause amps to run hotter and that may shorten the life of the amp. Just another reason to run two amps bridged mono or vertical biamp. You double the available power and you also double the heat sinking. If you play at the same volume you would with a single amp you should ameliorate the heat problem significantly. My moderate current, fairly inexpensive amps will put out 200/400/800 into 8/4/2 ohms when run bridged mono. They’ll put a whole lot more than 200 into 8 ohms but I’m not looking to play loudly enough for the inability to double from 500 to 1000 watts to become a problem. They’ve been operating flawlessly for around 7 years now.

jab
Good to see you today.   Happy Listening!

brayeagle
I had no idea that Don was a Thiel dealer/retailer at one time. Can you recall his electronics that drove those 3.5 loudspeakers? Very cool story and small world indeed.  I was there around 5 years ago and at that time he had Maggies and Sonus Faber.

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jon_5912
Thank You for chiming in on rosami 's query. For you guys that are running tubed gear, are you noticing a shorter life span of those tubes?

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I have some thoughts on The Listening Room. Don Hoatson was an early Thiel adopter, a pioneer from his opening in 1978. He was going strong with Thiel when I left in 1995 when I lost touch. His rooms were indeed great sounding due to their dimensions, construction, and that he used commercial horse-hair pad under the wool carpets to take the bottom octave absorption about an octave below any of the foam underpadding  products. Don died in 2016. 

This morning I spoke with his grandson, Michael, who grew up in Don's business and listening rooms. Mike has taken over and moved the business to Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore where he has been open one year, is growing and expects to honor everything his grandfather taught him. He is staking his future on customers like you guys.