How Do You Pronounce Thiel?

By the way, the best speakers I've heard were Thiel; I couldn't afford them but I liked the sound so much I had an engineer design a crossover that would get me the same sound, and built my own.

All I was doing was pointing out that phonetically speaking, nothing rhymes.
Rhymes are for children and my point was never meant to offend, just to point out that there are lessons from youth that we need to get to keep in touch with from time to time.
That, and nothing more.

As for Learsfool's comment, i think he may be onto something. Subtle differences that some of us 'claim' to hear, which others don't, have led to some very acrimonious debates here, or was it hear.

According to the dictionary I have here, teal and teel are indeed pronounced the same, "teel" or (IPA) "til".

Yes, a dictionary will give you what is historically the most used pronunciation and/or usage and rate it accordingly with the most used to the least used. Some go even further and state what is the correct pronunciation and what is now accepted. That, and there are only so many ways to define how something is said by way of writing it. But, in speech classes one learns that the human voice is so varied and beautiful and expressive and that there is really only one way, barring geographically induced slang and idioms and therefore dialects, to say something.
Now, that is splitting hairs.

I like to pretend its German and yell it out like "Tile"!