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| Thiel Owners Does anyone know where I can pick up an extra aluminum grilles for a pair of Thiel PowerPlane 1.2s? Do you guys think Rob would have some? I called but he’s out until Monday. | |
| Thiel Owners I whole heartedly agree with you, prof, which is why I haven’t spent much on cable myself. However, when I upgraded my amp to monoblocks and needed longer interconnects, I took the opportunity to get some "better" second hand cables. I don’t need ... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom--your insight is again very helpful, thank you. | |
| Thiel Owners Thank you Tom for your thoughts. Your comments that the internal wire is a different animal from the amp-2-speaker one does make me want to revisit just going with SW without auditioning others. Maybe I should just save up my money and go with G... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi pops, thanks for sharing your experience with SW. Very interesting indeed! I haven't spent much time with cabling other than making sure it's sufficient gauge (all at least 10awg). However, as I finalize all my components, I'm sure I'll reac... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Jon_5912, if the price is per pair, then the pricing makes complete sense to me! I must have missed that point, so thanks for the clarification. | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Jab,If S&V were listing them for $1400/each, then prices must have gone up without my knowledge, which is quite possible. Back at the end of 2013, Crutchfield began clearing their Thiel inventory since they stopped carrying the brand. They... | |
| Thiel Owners For those interested in cabling, in my discussions with Gary Dayton, he also told me that my Thiels were internally wired with Straight Wire, so his entire system uses Straight Wire. (Not sure if it was specific for my 2.7s or PCS, or just Thiel s... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks jon_5912 for forwarding the audio consultants list of used equipment. For those interested, I don't believe the HigherPlane 1.2's were ever priced at $2,180! I think MSRP was around $995 or something like that. So the price here of $990 i... | |
| Thiel Owners I wanted to share some comments from Gary Dayton, who worked for Thiel for 10 years, and is now at Bryston, and here is what he said:"CS2.7s are very similar to CS3.7s. They don’t have quite the clarity because of the wood baffle vs. aluminum baff... | |
| Thiel Owners I would certainly like to hear if anyone has paired their Thiels with a Datasat processor as well, and what they thought of the sound. | |
| Thiel Owners Hi dancastagna,I’m afraid there are just too many options, combinations and permutations of pre/processors and amps for you to have a definitive, singular solution. Tom’s advice will certainly help narrow the field, but in the end, I think you wil... | |
| Thiel Owners geoffkait, you mentioned the XLO Test CD. Did you do the setup and calibration yourself? If so, do you have any tips? | |
| Thiel Owners Come to think of it, I haven't retested my system since I replaced the 2.4s with the 2.7s so it's been over 10 years. The place where I bought my speakers is who originally came to my home to test and set up my system way back when, but they're n... | |
| Thiel Owners I’ve had someone more professional than I come in with a test CD and measuring devices to calibrate my system and adjust settings along with the speaker placement but there are some CDs that just don’t sound as good to me where the speakers are. I... |