Thiel 3.7

Boy is that reviewer a lousy writer. I assume the photos showing the differentiated woofer and passive radiator diaphragms are out of date, as his description of the woofer diaphragm seems to conform with the more recent Thiel website photos showing it looking just like the passive, that is to say not dished.

He seems not to have heard any current Thiel models for quite a while. As Unsound said, some of his caveats about past Thiel models' sound seem a little weird, to the extent that Thiels have typically offered an acceptably wide sweet spot due to their wide-dispersion design, and I've never heard the bass described as being slow on any Thiel. (Obviously it's not news to say many people have objected that Thiels can sound bright, which they can, for reasons we needn't go into again.)

Prior Thiels not using a coaxial M/T do have a narrow vertical sweet spot however (true of any multi-driver first-order array), and since larger Thiels have featured strong bass using low-impedance woofers, it's possible to result in an overdone bottom end response with the wrong room/speaker/amp combination. But it's true, as he found, that the 1.6 is a sweeter-sounding, less-demanding (and somewhat less critically revealing) Thiel.

Bad news. Just got an email from Dawn at Thiel, they wont have a pr. of the 3.7s for me to compare to the 7.2s on friday. I'm still going to go and hear the 7.2 setup in their room, but was really looking forward to hearing the 3.7. The tour of the building will be awesome.

Has anyone heard these speakers??? I see now Crutchfield is selling them (and PS Audio products too)....

I'm suprised to see Chrutchfield branching out from the Polk, Infinity, and Bose speaker lines. I wonder whay kind of amplification they are going to offer to go with the Thiel speakers?

Well, they do now offer PS Audio and Marantz Reference series amps and SACD players, all offered with 30 day home trial and true no quibble returns -- what's not to like? What's next from Crutchfield....tube amps? I am just pleased to see high end components now made available to those of us who might appreciate them but cannot easily demo stuff locally.