Thiel Owners


Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
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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?

^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. 

Why all the concern with continuos power into 2 ohms?  I believe the modules I read somewhere are made by IcePower (and their spec sheets talks about 2.5 ohms as does Peachtree's).  The person asking the question, the most important thing in suggesting something, uses Thiel 2.4s.  They don't have an impedance as low as 2 ohms at any frequency and they don't even have something as low as 2.5 ohms.  It (the 2.4s) dips a drop below 3 ohms at 600Hz and is pretty consisentently around 3 ohms the rest of the audio band.  The nature of the audio industry is what it is.  That's why I try things in the real world.