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You were the very first member to relate the merits of the 3.5’s to me and once again I have learned more.
I mis-spake (new word!) about sensitivity/efficiency and your input cleared that up. Much appreciated.
I had lived with a pair of Klipsch Epic CF-3’s for a period far longer than I have with any Thiels. (Entirely Audiogon’s fault, mind you.) Those old Klipsch had a sensitivity of 101db, capable of being driven with a tabletop radio but - and oy vey! - those compression horn loaded tweeters really got to me after a while. At one point, just before I removed the drivers and turned the cabinets into bookcases, I had actually stuffed a pair of white crew socks into the horns to eradicate the brittle quality. Solely for aesthetic reasons shortly thereafter I used some foam. Neither attempt resulted in resolution to the perceived problem so...bookcases.
Don’t ask. I am less of a carpenter than I am a technically proficient “audiot”, but it struck me as a good idea at the time.
Anyway...it might be misconstrued by some followers of this thread that I didn’t like the 3.6’s. They were typically excellent Thiels - unbelievably “true” sounding from top to bottom. It was only at my very conservative listening levels that they didn’t, couldn’t (?) deliver that natural, organic bass. Pushed a little beyond my norm they were as wonderful as the 3.5’s.
Thiel makes ANYTHING sound good, period. I’ve thrown just about everything at the Thiels I’ve owned - class a, class a/b, class d, monoblocks, tubed and passive preamps, and they all benefitted from Thiel.
If I didn’t discover Thiel from this site I would probably still have that old Pioneer pushing them Klipsch...
You were the very first member to relate the merits of the 3.5’s to me and once again I have learned more.
I mis-spake (new word!) about sensitivity/efficiency and your input cleared that up. Much appreciated.
I had lived with a pair of Klipsch Epic CF-3’s for a period far longer than I have with any Thiels. (Entirely Audiogon’s fault, mind you.) Those old Klipsch had a sensitivity of 101db, capable of being driven with a tabletop radio but - and oy vey! - those compression horn loaded tweeters really got to me after a while. At one point, just before I removed the drivers and turned the cabinets into bookcases, I had actually stuffed a pair of white crew socks into the horns to eradicate the brittle quality. Solely for aesthetic reasons shortly thereafter I used some foam. Neither attempt resulted in resolution to the perceived problem so...bookcases.
Don’t ask. I am less of a carpenter than I am a technically proficient “audiot”, but it struck me as a good idea at the time.
Anyway...it might be misconstrued by some followers of this thread that I didn’t like the 3.6’s. They were typically excellent Thiels - unbelievably “true” sounding from top to bottom. It was only at my very conservative listening levels that they didn’t, couldn’t (?) deliver that natural, organic bass. Pushed a little beyond my norm they were as wonderful as the 3.5’s.
Thiel makes ANYTHING sound good, period. I’ve thrown just about everything at the Thiels I’ve owned - class a, class a/b, class d, monoblocks, tubed and passive preamps, and they all benefitted from Thiel.
If I didn’t discover Thiel from this site I would probably still have that old Pioneer pushing them Klipsch...