Best electronics for Thiel CS3.6 ?

My dealer who sells Thiel says that the classic combos with thiel are Conrad Johnson, Audio Research and McIntosh.
The thiel tweeter is hyper revealing and it doesn't take much to make it sound bright. The Bryston amps (st versions) are some of the most dead neutral amps I have ever heard I suspect it may tip the balance of your system towards too bright though. I am not familiar with the Audio research gear but from Cj you can pick up a 17ls and a CJ ss amp for your budget. Should sound great and look beautiful to boot!

Remember the Thiel CS3.6 will only sing with enough juice, if you don't give it enough power then you'll run into the problem of sounding bright or edgy. No matter what don't skimp on the amp it will make or break your system with the CS3.6

I am running Thiel 3.6's with a CJ MF2500A and a CJ Premier 16ls II pre-amp. I find the combination extremely revealing and detailed with a soundstage the is both wide and deep.

I have used a CJ 17ls in the past and found that to be a very good combination as well.

Chuck

Get the Gamut monoblocks for sale here. You rarely see these and they are powerful and tube like.

Two key elements must be present: 1)high current capability in the output stage to avoid midbass sluggishness (big torroids and large banks of capacitance) and 2) Tubes in the input stage or the preamp to bring out the soundstaging and liquidity that the CS 3.6 is capable of. Of course you know to keep them at least 3 feet from back and side walls and use sound anchors or points. I am currently using a LLano 200 amp which uses tubes in the input and has two 1.25kva torroids with hexfets in the output stage with excellent results.