Thiel CS6 Compared with Eggleston Andra 1

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

Alan, I am with you. I have CS6's which replaced Andra II, remarkable speakers. I am also a longtime Thiel 3.6er and will never sell them.

The Eggy's are great speakers in their own right but the Thiel sound is just too hard to top once dialed in. Cheers!