Thiel Owners

I've enjoyed reading this thread.  I jumped into the Thiel world several months ago when a pair of CS 1.2's popped up locally.  Up until then I had been trying a variety of vintage speakers including Ohm Walsh 1, Original Large Advents, B&O RL 140, Avid 330, Cerwin Vegas, etc.  When I listened to the Thiel's, I was hooked.  My plan was to eventually work my way up the Thiel food chain.  About 3 weeks ago a pair of 1.5's popped up, so after conferring with Rob Gillum, I figured I would have an incremental improvement over the 1.2's.  And there was.  So I retired my vintage Dynaco ST 150 amp and bought a new Yamaha A-S701.  All was good, was loving the combo, when a pair of 3.5's popped up somewhat locally for a good price.  They came with the original boxes and the eq, so I bought them.  But my Yamaha doesn't have a pre-out or loop for the eq, so fortunately I was within my 15 day return period and back it went.  I ordered a Peachtree Nova 150.  It should be here in 2-3 weeks.  In the interim, the honking 3.5's are being powered by a vintage Kenwood KA-5700 integrated I had in the basement.  Can't wait to feed them some real power and see how they sing.

bluestone, 

As a previous owner of a pair of 3.5s, they do best with a lot of power.  I ended up using a Bryston 4B series amp. 

They're infinite baffle speakers, so for best sound, they need the watts plus the equalizer. 

Just a thought

@jafant To be honest I'm not sure what cables they were using, it didn't look like anything most people would recognize.  It was all digital with an Aurender streamer and I believe the DAC was Esoteric.