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!
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@tomthiel, Sorry, I don't have much to add. I've never heard them, though I would welcome the opportunity. The company has managed to last despite having a limited number of retailers, which I think are all out west without any in the east. They don't seem to have much presence at the shows. Though the shows don't seem to garner much attention either, at least here in the east. They had unusual aesthetics, that might have discouraged some? Most of the attention they garnered was in regard to their time capabilities, rather than their dispersion characteristics. There are a few reviews on the web. Stereophile has a couple I think. The reviews though not negative weren't especially enthusiastic. I'm not aware of any reviewer's that properly measure the time prowess of such speakers. Which is a shame. As you know things like step response and square waves illuminate so much about a loudspeaker. The rest is just opinion (at best, at worst it might be crooked). Their longevity suggests some market viability, but I'm not sure how. The small "monitor" model was garnering some positive talk here on Audiogon, with the exception of one poster who seems to have an axe to grind, in that he takes any and every opportunity to take shots at them (some of those shots were obviously without merit).

As for dispersion etc.,  you may recall, I have been toying with the ideal of as close to flush wall/corner mounted drivers and room correction DSP for a while now, and am now trying to figure out if there would be a preference for point source or line array. The funny part of it was prior to this notion, I was considering mid room placed omnis .

A little knowledge can be dangerous, and the math for some of this goes way beyond my middle school physics.:-)

Unsound - thanks for the recap. You might remember that I use PowerPoint 1.2s with an unusual 45° wall launch pattern, which I have placed on adjacent walls of a corner.  There definitely are merits to the engineerable predictability of boundary propagation.

Tom
Those SEs are from the same seller mine were from, similar price. They appear to be in slightly better condition but hard to know from the pics. Mine were rougher than described by TMR and the pics didn’t show all the cabinet flaws.

The vermillion maple and stainless hardware is stunning. Other than the finish, I can think of only one reason to get the SEs if you intend a Tom Thiel crossover upgrade: the oversized back panel will easily accommodate double binding posts whereas the standard version will fit only one. Of course, you could always drill through the cabinet for the second posts but that’s a less satisfying solution, IMO (see pics on my system page).