Thiel Owners

Just picked up a pair of 3.6 in Amberwood. I'm powering them with a pair of Clayton Audio M200's. Great sound.

bnut311

Welcome! Good to see you here. Reading through this thread, you will discover, that the 3.6 is a very popular loudspeaker among the Panel. I look forward in learning more about your Musical tastes and system.

Happy Listening!

Nice pickup @bnut311  I just bought a pair of 3.6 speakers about a week ago.

Quick update on my experience so far.  I was a bit surprised at the amount of bass they produced.  I have a distributed bass array system consisting of 4 subwoofers.  My intuition was to dial down the volume a bit on the subs and also lower the crossover point to around 30hz. 

After doing so and listening for a couple of days, they seemed "bright" at higher volumes.  I tried moving my listening position back a bit and that helped, but then imaging and soundstage suffered.  I decided to try raising the crossover point of the subs back up to 80hz and voila, that seemed to tame almost all of the brightness and really enhanced the soundstage and sense of propulsion of the music and brought back that visceral sense of "being there".  I'm pretty happy with how they sound now.  

I think I still have some work to do to get the most from them.  I am currently powering them with Herron Audio M1 amps which are 150/270 watts @ 8/4.  These amps do have very large toroidal transformers.  I'm currently using about 20 bucks of 16 gauge Duelund unterminated speaker cable.  I have some nice 11 GA Analysis Plus speaker cables on order and am considering different amps.

A couple of amps I'm considering are Parasound JC1 (not +) and Simaudio M400.  I'd appreciate any experience with either of those combinations. 

A nice pair of 3.7s is up for sale on Audiogon, looks like Amberwood finish.

Who's going to pick them up ?

@thieliste if he will deliver 1,000 miles I will add them to my collection of Thiels, LOL!  I completely understand why he doesn't want to ship them....