Thiel Owners

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.

beetlemania, I’m afraid I don’t have the same cynical constitution to take the view "if someone can get away with ripping people off by taking lots of money under false pretenses...more power to them!"

I actually care when people are ripped off.

And I’m glad others have cared whether I’m being ripped off or not, as I’ve learned from them and saved money through more knowledgeable purchases. And generally speaking, I think the proliferation of b*llshit matters; it makes it all the harder to do and get what we really want, if we are constantly having to dodge rip off artists.

To each his own...