Thiel Owners

The two examples above are not "subtle" :-)

The sound clarify in the second one is far from natural and has much distortions. I like heavy rock but would not measure speaker characteristics based on that kind of music (even some early Black Sabbath recordings are better for this purpose).
There is no way to reproduce such recording naturally so it is hard to judge on speaker quality for that kind of recording, in contrary to the first one. 
Thiels never fail to reproduce naturally
human voice, in particular. 

Thiels never fail to reproduce naturally
human voice, in particular.

I would agree with that. On the other hand, higher order speakers tend to have some extra details or trebles on the voice that makes the voice "clearer" but not naturally. When you listen to a person talking in real life, you don’t hear the extra details that sometimes being reproduced by the speakers.  On the same token, when the drum beats, the higher order speakers have some extra sparkles on the top end that makes it appear to have more slam, but probably not there on the real drum in real life.  

But some people may prefer the extra slam and sparkle of the higher order speaker so it's not like one is better than the other.

Then you may prefer Wilson Audio speakers.  For my taste they sound coloured and a bit aggressive (nothing to say about the difference on price). 

As you might have guessed by now, my installation is weird. My PPs are in a corner at 3' each from the corner with their tails near the ceiling. ( I couldn't get 4' due to physical constraints.) Their 45° vertical and horizontal launch from the symmetrical corner fills the room with little to no modes.


Tom,
Im trying to visualize the placement. Are the PPs each in a corner on the front wall (wall you face to listen) mounted hanging downward?