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Thiel Owners

Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
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vair68robert
625 posts
 
dsper

How much of a DYIer are you ?
Would you consider replacing and upgrading the componets in your
amp?  If so try replacing the rectifiers with fast and soft recovery ones .
Since the 500 is an older amp it might have fast recovery but not soft ,
I was suprised at the difference they made for around $7 each x 4 .

Rob



 



andy2
1,555 posts
 
Playing with speaker position and room acoustic will yield differences that swamp what you’d get switching around digital sources.(And btw, I’m not in the camp that says every digital source sounds the same).
That's missing the point though.  Every adjustment will have an affect on different aspects of the sound.  Speaker position, room, ... will have some specific on the sound, just as cables, DAC will have their own affects that cannot be found in position ...


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jafant OP
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cascadesphil


Thank You for reviving the old CS 7.2/Levinson thread. I would be interested in learning if any of those guys still own the 7.2 loudspeaker?


Happy Listening!

prof
3,474 posts
 
andy,

Yes that's a fair point.  Though I think to a degree.

But there is so much that you can adjust via speaker positioning/room acoustics, especially when we are talking about things like an assertive treble, that it makes sense as a first step before trying to "fix" it with gear that may or may not come close to doing so.

On the other hand, I don't think I'd get exactly what I get from my CJ tube gear vs a solid state amp, strictly from changing speaker positions.
cascadesphil
232 posts
 
"

Thank You for reviving the old CS 7.2/Levinson thread. I would be interested in learning if any of those guys still own the 7.2 loudspeaker?"


Been quite a while since I lived in the DC area and my friend who worked at the store and I did deliveries with.  Most of that was the late 1990s through around 2005 (my friend was gone from the store a few years when I sold my 7.2s and got my 3.7s and since he helped me sell my 7.2s the owner let him deliver my 3.7s and took care of him).  There's an old Washington Post article (I was not able to find it) from around 15+ years ago about one of the people I was talking about that deals with ultra high end 2-channel systems.  His first name was Hugh (last name escapes me at the moment - was a retired Navy pilot - very nice guy) and he was the focus of the article.  I think back then he had about $140k at retail into his 2-channel system.  Besides being over his place (which I enjoyed), I'd see him at events at the local audio shop.  There probably weren't too many of us back then who used to frequent that local shop who owned 7.2s.  Back then I think the most expensive speaker I saw in someone's house were these -  https://manofmany.com/tech/audio/dynaudios-evidence-loudspeakers-85000-well-spent   Room wasn't a good match (way too small but I understand the customer moved a couple of years later into a bigger place) and he had Levinson 33Hs which I helped install.  I always look at used stuff (not that I need anything), particularly local to me and probably one of these days, I'll end up picking up something speaker wise.


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