Thiel Owners

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I’ve recently felt some despair concerning the amount of snake oil in our hobby and the industry, (when audiophiles wonder why we are a source of bemusement and mockery, we need look no further than the farcical high end cable racket).

>>>>>>Try not to despair too much. Look on the bright side - much has been learned about cable design from high end cable companies. One cannot ignore the “sound engineering” involved in many newer innovations implemented by Audioquest and others - e.g., highly polished solid core wire surfaces, control of directionality for not only speaker cables and interconnects but also power cords and HDMI cables, cryogenics, silver content in connectors, and others. I hate to judge too harshly but it appears there is quite a bit of misunderstanding regarding the nature of the audio signal in cables, you know, judging from the recent threads on the subject.

TMR is asking $1099 for a pair of Amberwood CS 2.2s plus $149 for shipping. 
Condition is listed as 9 out of 10.

https://tmraudio.com/speakers/full-range-floorstanding/thiel-cs-2-2-floorstanding-speakers-amberwood-pair/
 

for what it is worth,   the 2.2's were really good speakers at the time and a BIG improvement over the 2.0's that i had.  the 2.0's were a bit difficult to live with but the 2.2's were much better.  i personally really started to appreciate Thiel with the 2.4's but that came 15 years later as the 2.2's were my longest running speaker (1992-2007)

I bought my CS2.4SEs from TMR. The cabinets were in rougher condition than they showed in the pics and description but otherwise they were good to deal with. Those 2.2 look good in the pics but hard to believe a speaker that age is really a 9/10. For starters, there appears to be a scratch on the binding post plate.

Try not to despair too much.

I, for one, couldn't care less if Obscene Audio charges $50K per foot for a USB cable. No skin of my nose! Even if I could afford it I wouldn't bother (law of diminishing returns). And if the Obscene guys bilk the 1%ers so that they can feed their families, more power to 'em!
Meanwhile, my experience is that cables and wire *do* make an audible difference. I heard really nice improvements with better speaker cables and hook-up wire. Less so but still worthwhile with interconnects but only tiny differences with power cables. To each their own.