Thiel Owners

tomthiel

Thank You for Bill's rationale. In my collection, Ayre and Marantz players have a stand-by mode when not at playback. The Accuphase does not.

All (3) are Reference players in their own right. 
I can hardly await to see which Player/Transport you add to Hot Rod Garage.

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@tomthiel Thanks. 

Sorry about coming in from left field; back on July 23, I wrote:

Stager Silver Solids. Quote from Marc Stager:
"...it is not how a cable makes music sound great. It's about how it allows music to sound great by not hindering its transmission in any way>>>"......

Anyway, for me, in my system, the honeymoon is over with Stager silver solids.

My wife is out of town, so without adult supervision, I reinserted my old Synergistic Research Alpha Sterling interconnects and I am glad I did.

Better bass and more texture throughout the audio range with the Alpha Sterlings. I guess I mistook the treble edge of the silver as providing more resolution. Not true.

Anyway, still want to try more interconnects. Anybody out there who has can suggest a step forward from Alpha Sterlings?

Trying to mate with PS PMT, Mystique DAC, CJ 17LS2 , DNA-500,
and Thiel CS5i's.

Thanks for listening,

Dsper

dsper

Good to see you here again. Agreed, Thiel Owners must use caution with Silver cables/cords for the example as above.  Thank You for sharing the SR versus Stager Silver solids comparison.  
Talk about cables/cords here anytime!

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Hi Guys. I claim no knowledge of silver interconnects, but would like to pass on some relevant Thiel experience. During the development of the 3.7, Jim and company compared all the potential wires and configurations for internal hookup. They settled on solid copper in twisted pairs as sounding better than silver plated.

Relatedly, in developing the in-house drivers, silver plated voice coils lost out to solid copper in the lower ranges and copper plated aluminum in the tweeters.

ScanSpeak tells me that conclusion is widespread. The Goertz flat wire that Jim settled on for speaker cables was copper. Knowing that silver is a better conductor, any comment I might have would be conjecture. We must also remember that Jim was extremely value oriented, so the high price of silver would have weighed heavily in his value equation.