Thiel Owners

Happy Friday! All

TGIF for sure, and thanks jafant for the cable info, much appreciated.

btw, if you haven't read this thread and don't mind scanning through some atypical (even for audio forums) trolling bs to get to some good info, this is a good discussion centered on class d amps driving Thiels - I learned a lot!

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/what-class-d-amps-will-drive-a-2-ohm-load

not sure "centered" was a good word choice above, the thread does get way off topic at times.

Thosb - Wow, what a ride! The topic of amps driving Thiels is, of course, of great interest and concern to me. Jim did his thing for his reasons, and I disagreed (about impedance mostly), but he was the designer-engineer. The interacting variables are very real. My hope was that by developing our own in-house driver manufacturing we could circumvent some of the hard problems of magnetic gap electrodynamics, etc. that limited the overall system design. Thiel drivers did indeed become quite radical. But to my dismay, the system impedances fell rather than rose, which disappoints me as I re-assess these designs.

I wish that Thiel speakers presented a minimum 4 ohm load! That didn't happen. The nearly magic work-around that a poster mentioned on that thread, is to add a second input for a separate amp for the 3 bass drivers. Most of the problem evaporates, but cost is incurred for 2 more amps.

I find it interesting that in all that discussion and examples, that Benchmark AHB-2 didn't surface. My question about it on this thread also got no response. Is it invisible or somehow inappropriate? Absolute Sound rated it Class A. I find it exceptionally clean, uncolored, versatile and affordable. Am I missing something?