Thiel Owners

As I’ve mentioned before in this thread: My Conrad Johnson Premier 12 tube monoblocks, 140W/side, drove the 3.7s beautifully. It seemed like an "ultimate" combination of lush, organic sound, but with precision and plenty of power.

A friend who is a high end audio reviewer, and who actually wasn’t fond of Thiel speakers (felt they were always too bright when heard at shows/stores etc) was simply blown away by the combo. He felt "it just doesn’t get much better than that."

I feel like going krell fpb-300 with Conrad Johnson tube pre amp or luxman tube pre amp. My dac will just be my 800 dollar fiio MP3 player with its line out function

I have an MSB Analog DAC feeding the Krell FBI.  Debating spending 4K on the renderer and power supply upgrade or going say the Lumin T2 route.  Think I'm going to do the 60 day demo on the Lumin.  The MSB is being fed via usb from an Intel NUC.

Will look up the DACs mentioned.

The beauty of the FBI is you can bypass the preamp.  I would love to try an Audio Research Ref 5 SE or a Conrad Johnson and then switch back and forth and see what they all sound like.

Does this ever end!!!! :-) 

@yyzsantabarbara  Never heard any Luxman cd players, only familiar with C900u/M900u combo.Conrad Johnson Premier 350SA is known to be a great match for 3.7s but very difficult to find.

@solobone22  Be careful Lumin is not very musical more on the analytical side, i would try the MSB renderer.A couple of years ago i made a shootout between Lumin S1 and Ayon S5, the later was much more musical, really didn't like the Lumin.