Thiel Owners

I was once asked a question " can you hear it " ?
I've discovered that many times I didn't hear it
until I was not hearing it !

Umm, I feel like an acolyte interrupting the masters at work, but anybody try Acoustic BBQ speaker cables with their Thiels?  I need to get some speaker cables with spade connectors (long story) and leaning towards trying these, unless someone can make a strong case for something different for less than $400.  Same old requirements - less harshness in the treble, no loss of resolution or harmonics. Currently have AQ CV-8s which are the only audiophilesque speaker cables I've tried.

Tom, 

Sorry for an antediluvian question:  When you speak of tonality, are you referring to a pure sinusoid wave form or one containing the harmonics?

In my earlier years, I was taught the beauty of a violin tone came from the addition of the harmonics to the fundamental. 

George - by tonality I intend to mean the whole perception of tone, which includes the fundamental and all the overtones. Tonal information, as I understand it, is processed differently than time information.

A very interesting, to me, aspect is the interplay between tone and time. I am presently working on a new termination scheme of the piano string at the bridge. Various schemes deliver various temporal envelopes relative to the frequency (tonal) response of the note.
(all related to the impedance variables at the bridge and the length and tuning of the back-scale between the bridge and the string's final termination.) The fascinating aspect is that the fundamental is only required momentarily, for the brain to "get it" (understand the harmonic structure), rather than having to create a phantom fundamental inferred from the upper harmonics (which takes lots of work.) Anyhow, once the real fundamental is there for a instant, the upper harmonics make sense, and then the phantom can drop out and the upper harmonic structure is more intelligible on its own. This harmonic development / sonic motion is related to the phase interactions of the string and bridge, which can be manipulated. Imagine that.

Tom, 

Thank you.