Hallo tomthiel, hallo jafant, brettmcee and dear all! I have been an enthusiastic follower of thiel-owners, in particular since Tom has started to share his amazig kowledge. I live in Vienna / Austria, bought a pair of brand new Thiel CS 3.7 in Dec. 2008 (replacing the also gorgeous Kef 104/2 and Silver Sounds 8-gauge speaker cables), powered by a recently acquired Bryston 4B3 (before by 4BSST3), and connected via Audience 'e' cables (upgradeable towards SE - I am currently thinking about it) and supported by REL S/510 subs with deep crossover setting (ajustable) around 40 Hz - the way Jim Thiel liked it as far as I have heard. All this in my rather spacious scholarly library packed with books et al. - Just in short this time: highly synergetic and really perfect in many aspects - according to my ears (as an acitve participant of piano master classes and performer in the past), in the ears of noted musicians in our music addicted City of Vienna, and enthusiastically confimed by a professional sound engineer. -
Now, after such a (too) extensive introduction: allow me pls some special questions: my Thiels SN are 719/720, so according to your infos in the past, TOM: somewhere between the first and the scond revision; they were sent to serve as a demo model on a HiFi fair in Vienna in Nov. 2008 before I bought them, so may be one of those pairs which got special attention? And you also mentioned some delicate ideas for an upgrade ('hot rod') towards the SN 800+ (?) series of the CS 3.7s. BUT: I am a little worried that sh.. can always happen and will happen according to Murphy's law. So, better enjoy what I have and adore or go for even more resp. audible (micro-) improvements?
Another worry concerns the sealed little tube taking the internal cable towards the upper closed containing the coax drivers; as you mentioned in one of your former messages, Tom: the silicone sealing might get dry after so many years, and give way for harmful pressure from the woofers below destroying the caox driver?
Enough - and more than this for now. Another interest which we might share, Tom is: sound wood, and the genre of biography - one of my academic specialisms...
