Thiel Owners

Hey! So I inherited a pair of CS 2.4s that I love, along with a NAD C275BEE amp that I think is dying. The right channel keeps cutting out and only comes back after power cycling.

Short of looking into repairing that amp, I was thinking of getting a new integrated amp, hopefully with a DAC. I know the Thiels are picky in terms of ohms, but I'm trying to keep the cost under $1000, and the Yamaha A-S701BL looked good to me. Open to Ebaying a good amp too, but prefer new.

Will this amp be able to power the CS 2.4s adequately? They stay in a small NYC apartment room so they're not maxing out their volume. Thanks for any input!

They don't give any specs into 4 ohms - 

  and it doesn't look like a high current amp.  So I would guess unless you don't listen to dynamic music in a small room, I'm not sure you would be happy with it - 

btw - accessories4less.com sells authorized refurbs and it is $300 cheaper than Amazon.  It apparently has an impedance switch for speakers between 4 and 6 ohms which hints at the fact that it is not considered ideal for lower impedance speakers.Stereophile measured the minimum inpedance at 2.73 ohms at 600Hz and "stays significantly below 4 ohms from 100Hz to 50kHz, and there is a difficult combination of 4.5 ohms magnitude and –45° electrical phase angle at 80Hz. Thiel CS2.4 owners should make sure they have a good 4 ohm–rated amplifier to drive this speaker."

If you can stretch the budget a drop, there's a lightly used Peachtree Audio nova300 integrated on Audiogon that is listed as 2 months old in mint condition for $1,250.  If you can get a few bucks off, it is rated at 300W into 8 ohms and 450W into 4. The built in DAC can do double DSD and 2384kHz PCM.  There's reviews out there such as:

That's definitely food for thought, thank you. It looks like that Nova 300 can power anything. Those are great deals on the refurbs, thanks!