Upgrading from Thiel 2.7 to Sonus Faber or Focal???

Hi Walter,

After a month break in they are sounding quite a bit better. They are relaxing more and opening up. Imaging and layering of instruments is fantastic in my opinion.  I'm guessing I have approximately 200 hours and the majority of those hours are with a Pass 150.8 amp now. Sold the Audio Research REF110 amp. Loved the REF110 but feel the Pass or solid state drives them better. 

Samzx12,

do you like them better than your Thiels? Do you think they are technically better?

James that’s a good question but for my tastes I prefer the SFO3. They both do a lot of things very well but I really think the O3s are more musical overall and versatile to various types of music. Build quality is top notch for both but I have to give the award to the 03 in a beauty contest lol. There is something about the O3 that make you a very proud owner and they ooze class. You can just feel that Sonus Faber as a company pay a LOT of attention to detail. The Thiels are rock solid as far as build quality also but at their prospective price points the O3 is a better speaker.  But this is my opinion only.  

Thanks,

I have only spent a short time with the Olympica but they seemed like they had potential. I ultimately did not buy them because of the lack of real grills with small children around (detected room but I let them hangout with me in there). 

I remember you mentioning the lack of real grills and children in a previous post. Reminds me of a girl I went out for a very SHORT time a few years ago. She brought her little girl over one afternoon and I didn’t have the grills on my speakers and she proceeded to touch the tweeter and make a dent. I used a vacuum cleaner and gently placed it to the tweeter and pulled it right out. In the short time she was at my house she managed to dent the tweeter, scare the s--- out of my cat and leave foot prints on the wall. Needless to say that was the last time she was there lol. The mom was batshit crazy anyway bahahaha!!!