Thiel Owners

jazzman7

Thank You for addressing amscott's query.

Happy Listening!

@harrylavo ​​@tomthiel 

Thanks for the Adcom 555 recommendations. I’ll definitely check them out. Harry, you mentioned to me to go ahead and hook up my gear to the Thiels? Are you sure it won’t damage my Sansui? Obviously keeping the volume low would be prudent.

Thanks again for the suggestions gents!

- Dave

Maybe some Thiels are bright but a big chunk of that is about something else.  Maybe personal or political or oven some sort of ethnic thing.  They're mostly not bright and mostly not that hard to drive.  My 2 2s were slightly warm hooked up to a <1k HT receiver.  What 2k pair of speakers required a 10k amp?  When was this?  I'm not trying to be combative I'm having a hard time believing it.

@tomthiel 

What's the state of your Thiel 02 development?  Could you remind me what you've done to the little critters?

Too bad this forum is so 1998 in tech terms; I'd love to see a photo of your 02s posted here.

jon - hyperbolic figure of speech. But, Thiels do require care in setup. A consistent source of the brightness disparagement came from show-goers making judgements from standing in the doorway. Thiels baked-in design constraint requires sitting down for proper driver integration. Another aspect of driver integration is the 8' minimum listening distance requirement, which when subverted causes sonic problems.

Whether it was cable or amps, Jim chose to use very good ones, beyond a $-balanced norm.