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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audiojan,

I'd love to hear those Clear Beyond speaker cables in my system, but they are just too expensive for me to seriously consider. I have a pretty long speaker cable run (7-meter pair) in my 2-channel system, and the list price for a pair of the Clear Beyonds would be $21,470. I paid around $400 for the Straight Wire Encore cables I've used for several decades, so I can't wrap my head around the idea of paying thousands of dollars more to replace the Encores. I could afford the Cardas Parsec speaker wires (at $1575 per 7m pair), but I'd be reluctant to spend more than that, especially without any assurance that they would sound better than my current Straight Wire cables.

I did some in-home testing of moderately priced interconnects last year and ended up liking the Cardas Parsec (in a 1-meter length) better than the Shunyata Venom or similarly priced interconnects from Synergistic Research. I'd be inclined to try a similar speaker cable shoot-out in my system if I could try several samples of wire that were long enough to demo without having to move my amps and source equipment out of their cabinets and across the room.

I'm glad you found some cables that have taken your speakers to a new level.
yabe1951,

I've heard several other people recommend using a tube preamp with a SS power amp to drive Thiel speakers. The last time I seriously listened to any tube gear was many years ago, and I came away liking the liquid midrange but disliking the flabby low end I heard in my demo. I also did not like the idea of having to change tubes and deal with sonic changes as the tubes aged. However, maybe it's time to give a modern tube preamp a chance to impress me.
yabe1951
Good to see you gain. Yes, the Kimber Kable Monocle XL is suggested by Taylor of Goldprint Audio in NC. He was a Thiel Audio dealer and remains a Kimber dealer to date.
Happy Listening!
audiojan
Good to see you here.  Several reviewers of the Audio press still list the Cardas Golden Reference as an interconnect preference.
Most will concur about the Clear/ Beyond being much better speaker cables.

Happy Listening!