Scoring on Used Thiels here


Has anyone scored a great deal on used Thiels here lately?   With Thiel going under, there appear to be a lot of good deals on used THiels here for takers.   Anyone picked used Thiels up here recently and regretted it?

Just wondering.    Some of the used prices look too good to pass up.
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A little off the track, but four or five Thiel 3.5's make a superb surround sound system.  the various locations tend to cancel out room resonances and without room correction allow their smooth bass to really make itself known.  You haven't heard an organ at home until you hear 16hz on such a system.

Another oft overlooked consideration .... the 3.5's equalizers serve as a buffer for high impedance tube preamps feeding low impedance solid state amp inputs.  This is particularly advantageous for me as I use ARC SP6a preamps into Outlaw M200 monoblocks (10k ohm inputs) to drive the system.
Unsound ... you are right the Thiel equalizer has a high input impedance ... either the 90k you mention or perhaps 100k.  That is why it can take the high output impedance of the SP6's or other pure tube preamps.  However, its output impedance is very low, so it works well into the 10K input impedance of the Outlaw monoblocks, which is low even for solid state amplifiers.