Thiel Owners

^Nice amps for Thiels. Unusually most users report better results through the single ended RCA inputs rather the balanced XLR inputs with these amps. I’d caution you about using these amps in bridged mono configuration with your Thiel’s. Typically bridged amps don’t do well into low impedances. A better alternative would be to have your Thiel’s modified so that each would have dual binding post pairs and have each amp run a channel to the each of the binding posts of each speaker. In this configuration each amp would receive either two left channel or two right channel inputs respectively. A pre with dual stereo pre outs helps facilitate this. I would suggest avoiding a pre that leans to the dark side or has a rolled off treble with these amps, “liquid” presentation would be a plus. These are fairly sensitive amps, be careful of very high output pres, or you might have limited volume control range.

^In a small room such as yours, you could probably get away with one of those amps, perhaps comfortably.

thoft

Nice score! Enjoy your Classe' Model 25 amps.

Happy Listening!

Adding to unsound’s comment - if one amp does drive your small room, stereo mode "sees" twice the impedance of bridged mode. This class A/B amp will have less distortion and sound better in stereo mode. I suggest a direct comparison and tell us what you hear.

   Thiels have been my primary speakers for nearly twenty years now, first CS2.3 then CS2.4 in 2006. A dispute with a new condo neighbor hypersensitive to sound caused me to buy a pair of the new KEF LS50 Meta stand-mounted speakers for substantially less bass transmission between condos. Single coax driver, but 2nd order crossover and rear-firing port in a tiny 12 x 8 x 11" 17 lb box on stands.

   I compared them with my 2.4 when I first broke them in, noted the expected differences, pros and cons, and then parked my Thiels for over a month and listened only to the KEFs. I pulled out the 2.4s a few days ago to remind myself what I've been missing. I'll save the space of comparing the two, but to mention that the immediate and overwhelming sound of my Thiels was 'relaxed' and 'relaxing' musical presentation, to the point of the cliched 'time slowed down' listening to them, a fully 'natural' 'authentic' listening experience. This far overwhelmed all the objective detail differences versus the KEFs I've become skilled at identifying for the past 50 years.

I'll only add my music's bass extension and volumes were moderate enough not to tax the KEFs, the leading-edge speed, and sustain micro-dynamics and detail, were at least as good with the 2.4s, so those weren't factors in 'relaxed' being 'slow' or 'veiled.' It transcended all those individual characteristics.

After all these years, is THIS what full time/phase coherency sounds like once I've been missing it?? That's the ONLY thing I could account for such a dramatic and indescribable difference. I don't think I would have noted this character so blatantly if I had been swapping speakers every few days.

I know a number of forum members have Thiels with other similarly good non-time-aligned speakers. After a long absence, has anyone else had an experience similar to what I describe?