Thiel Owners

oldtechguy

Thank You for the follow up to my query. I want to say that there is another CS 1.2 fan/owner on the Panel. At your leisure, read through this thread from the beginning. There is a plethora of information available to everyone.  It appears that you are a "tech guy" Any special aspect or discipline in Audio?

I look forward in reading more about your Musical taste and system.

Happy Listening!

Not really, in a past life I was a Unix/Linux sys admin, though I was also a network tech, hench the oldtechguy. I did go through this lengthy thread, got rather interesting in a few places.

My music taste is really eclectic, currently Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats are playing, the previous album was by The McDades. I will listen to just about anything musical.

oldtechguy

Very nice. I hope the 1.2 repair goes smoothly. Keep me posted and watch eBay/U.S. Audiomart for Thiel loudspeaker parts.

Happy Listening!

Happy Friday! All

@dsper 

I have an Audio Research Ref75SE driving my pair of CS.5’s that I bought from Bay Area Audio back in the day. The authority of that amp mates well with the baby Thiels in an almost magical way. No low end bass of course but the coherence and musicality above 40 Hz or so is amazing. In my larger room it works satisfyingly well for everything but the really big orchestral works. My taste is jazz and alternative so this suits me fine.  

The Ref75 has a lot of power and slam. I don’t know if you really need that for the baby Thiels but it’s quite a bit better than the 50 wpc AR integrated I was previously using.