Thiel Owners

Hi tomthiel, jayant, fitter, asturias & others,

If anyone is in the N. CA area, you're welcome to audition my 7.2s, which have been described by the former local distributor of Thiels, as the "best 7.2s on the planet by far".  Not bragging, just sharing. 
I also own 2.3s which have been very competent. Great to see such enthusiasm!  Happy Holidays all!  Keith aka kld236

It seems to me that Thiel renaissance is on the way, that's good, very good to hear.Thanks Tom, what best christmas gift could we wish?Maybe we will see Tom and Rob together in a new enterprise, if this is the case I wish all the best to both of you.I already have dealed with Rob twice, can witness he is a strongly recommendable and competent guy. About Tom His name and career speak for him.

JA - our time was quite limited, a wreck on the expressway cost us over two hours late arrival. Most of our time covered tech. Rob has original driver and product testing rigs and much deeper stock than I had imagined. He has all the development prototypes from Cs3.5 on. At CSS he has a showroom/office, adequate for the job of comparison. We didn’t make it home where is we’ll hi Fi-Ed. At CSS he has Bryson cubed series. ThielRules might know the gear particulars. TR was there as well as Tammy, long-time driver-maker, and Jeremy Kling, son of Walter Kling, co-originator and Mfgr Director after I left. We all compared 7s to 7.2s and considered them co-equal. Concrete and polymer baffles are equally inert- deader than CS5. Sound is preferential- only. 7 is gentler,7.2is more incisive. We heard equal detail. Jim was working on a 7.3 and I suspect a goal was to mitigate the “in your face” tendency of the 7.2. Best I’ve heard.

Hi brayeagle,

I found your post about speaker wiring:

"... I began to use DYI speaker and interconnects - - top Belden wire with the best connectors I could get...Belden AWG 10 for speaker wiring..."

I just replaced 16 gauge lamp cord on my Thiel CS5's with 10 gauge multi-strand copper wire and I can hear an improvement! Better detail that provides more decay and presence.

It got me to thinking about why I believed lamp cord was good enough and recalled that I had looked at Roger Russell's "Speaker Wire" discussions http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm. This was back when I was listening to easier to drive speakers like Advents, Paradigms, and Magnepans. 

If I had thought to refer to Roger's " Maximum Wire Lengths For TWO CONDUCTOR Copper Wire" chart when I purchased the CS5's, I would have been hearing better music for the last couple of years!

Thanks for listening,

Dsper