Thiel Owners

Those 3.7s on ebay are gorgeous. Every time a nice pair comes along I drive myself crazy. My 3.6s are sounding really excellent-with a caveat or two-and i wonder about the logic of spending so much given how good the 3.6s are. I also wonder weather Tom T's upcoming mods will be too much for non-techies and how much effort will be involved. Yup - first-world problems are a bitch. 

rosami

Thank You for the suggestion on Billie Eilish. Hope that you are well and enjoying your 3.6 loudspeakers.

Happy Listening!

tomthiel

Thank You for the history lesson on Bill and Ed Long.  Peavey was a major player in the Pro-Audio world. Currently, I do not know if this company has the same reputation?

Happy Listening!

Peavey made their mark beginning in the 1960s with their high-powered, bulletproof amps and stage speaker cabinets at affordable prices. Hartley Peavey did it well. He saw opportunities and went for them. He kept his prices reasonable when big money bought Fender and other big stage players, quality went down and prices skyrocketed. Sound familiar?

One of my formative jobs after developing the production capacity for Thiel Audio, was Peavey’s development of Eddie VanHalen’s Wolfgang Guitar. I helped crack the code to reliably get the sound that Eddie wanted, based on wood particulars. I moved to New Hampshire to supply (over 5 years' time) 17,000 Birdseye Maple neck/fingerboard sets and Basswood bodies from wood that I personally selected in Northeast US and Canada, milled in New Hampshire, specially dried in Massachusetts, and sent on to Jeremy Kling (my godson) in Lexington to turn into matched sets for Peavey. Big job - got me into the high-end tonewood production business, traveling the world selecting wood from sustainable sources, including a sunken ship, typhoon and hurricane cleanups, Amazonian replant projects, deconstruction of a railroad trestle and old buildings, among others. What a trip.

I think that Peavey is chugging along nicely as an all-american innovative manufacturer with a good reputation and world-wide distribution.

rosami

I'm in the same boat as you...very happy with my 3.6s. I have nearly pulled the trigger on a 3.7 purchase 2 times over the past few years but backed out at the last moment. I would love to hear them in my system before a purchase, but that will likely never happen. My hesitation is due to both the significant price jump (I purchased my 3.6s in mint condition from the original owner who lived 90 miles from me in 2012 for $1200 on Audiogon) and the reported attenuated deep bass response. It seems like more 3.7 owners have subs compared to 3.6 owners. I'm also very interested in the future hot rod mods, but also concerned about my ability to install once available.

Jon