Thiel Owners

Thanks guys for the feedback. Now let's see if I can snag one.

tomthiel
Thank You for the history lesson on CS 3.7 loudspeakers.I hope that you are well and enjoying the Fall season there in New England.This is a good reminder for cite your Serial Numbers (S/N) on all Thiel Audio models here.
Happy Listening!

yyzsantabarbara
not long ago a pair of CS 3.7 were listed on U.S. Audiomart. Watch that site often, as well as, Audio Asulym, Audiogon, eBay and Craigslist. Keep me posted on your hunt.

Happy Listening!

jafant,

I have to laugh after you (and others) encouraged me to get a tube preamp for my Thiel 2.2's and then you picked up a tubeless Ayre integrated amp to drive your Thiels after I broke down and bought a BHK preamp for my system. My BHK still needs more burn-in, but it already sounds great. It adds body to reproduction of instruments and broadens the sound stage in a very pleasing and natural way, but it never sounds flabby or loose the way some tube amps/preamps can sound.

Just bought a pair of CS3.7's. Going to drive and pick it up on Saturday.

It has been 12 years since I demoed and wanted to buy the CS 3.7 and the stars aligned quickly this past 3 weeks. I was going to buy the Yamaha NS5000 for the office but the CS3.7 will fit better (less bass) and I love this model. 

I am going to be putting this in my office which is way too small. However, I did demo them long ago in a small room (with subs no less). I also have the room acoustically treated and I am going to call up Mitch Barnett of Acoustic Sounds in Canada to develop a few convolution files (DRC) to run my digital via ROON.

My analog only SACD player may not work with the CS3.7 in this room since I won't be able to do DRC with that, but I also like headphones for that player.

I do have a much larger room downstairs for this speaker if I cannot make it work in the office, but my toddler has that as his play room. I can share with him once he goes back to school. Pretty sure this DRC exercise in the office will be successful, especially with the CS3.7.

My gear is an all Benchmark stack, HPA4 preamp | DAC3B | AHB2 amp | Benchmark Speaker cables | Benchmark StarQuad XLR between pre-amp and amp | Audience AU24 SE on 3 sources to the preamp.

I believe this should be a good sounding setup. If not the CS 3.7's go downstairs. I will likely get a second AHB2 to run in mono.