Thiel CS6 Compared with Eggleston Andra 1

Hi Johnny,

I own both speakers now and I can honestly say that they both have great strengths. The Thiel CS6 is what I am presently using at this time. And being someone who has worked in the Music Industry, and has been in recording studios for over 40 years with Composers/ songwriters and arrangers like Ray Ellis, Marc Ellis, Jim Helms,Chris Houston,Peter Anders, Chris Mancini/Hanks son &Jan Berry just to name a few.
The Andra's are much more forgiving on bad recordings.

Stereophile's measurement of the Eggleston looks like a classic case of a tweeter that is wired out of phase from the correct orientation. The very deep and symmetrical suck out is the result you get when a crossover designed to match the tweeter and mid phase at the crossover point is wired out of phase.

I'm guessing, but from the layout of the baffle and the shape of the dip at the crossover point, this was meant to be a Linkwitz-Reilly 4th order crossover between mid and tweeter, and a tech simply connect the tweeter backward.

L2L: Thanks for pointing this out. Whenever I encounter it, I get up on my soapbox and ask, why do designers spend untold amounts of money bringing to market very expensive and heavy speakers that, by design, intentionally destroy musical content by phase shifting out microdynamics and timbre through such an approach?

This is why Thiel and Vandersteen will, for me, always be the speakers of choice. They simply get it.

Hi Steve, I agree with you 100%.

After living with the Thiel CS6's. I sold the Eggleston Andra speakers.
Speakers that I've previously owned:
Vandersteen 3A SIGNATURE
Aerial 10T
Eggleston Andra l