Thiel Owners

@jafant 

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm very grateful to have these speakers, such an upgrade from my well-loved but comparatively dinky PSB Alpha B1s. I only feel a little burdened by having to get such a specific and powerful amp.

Do you agree that the Peachtree Nova 300s would be able to power the 2.4s below 4 ohms well? They seem to check the boxes and I'm fine stretching my budget since it has a DAC and preamp. 

As indicated above "The amplifier in the nova300 is capable of driving an extremely wide range of speakers with impedances as low as 2.5Ω and as high as 16Ω" 

^Without any regard to power output or at what levels of distortion? Not saying much. Why don’t they provide actual usable specs?

Below are Stereophile's measurements.  Many manufacturers have the marketing types do their websites.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/peachtree-audio-nova300-integrated-amplifier-measurements

^As is often the case, unless a manufacturer offers a 2 Ohm spec Stereophile doesn't do a complete test at that load. Even then they will often just test one channel of a stereo amp, even knowing that the amp shares its power supply between both channels. The skeptic might presume that Stereophile is more concerned with avoiding embarrassment to a potential advertiser than offering useful information to its subscribers. Furthermore, there seems to be a pattern from manufacturers specs sheets that suggests that manufactures have figured out how to avoid Stereophile's 2 Ohm testing.  That this manufacturer suggests suitability of the unit under test for 2 Ohm applications, Stereophile offers incomplete testing into 2 Ohms for distortion. While the results of the 2 Ohm distortion testing suggest significantly higher distortion into 2 Ohms than is the case into 4 or 8 Ohms it is still within reason for the end user. Importantly there is no measure of power output into 2 Ohms.