Thiel 3.5 equalizer advice


I am using Thiel 3.5 speakers without the equalizer. Does anyone have any insights (or firsthand experience) on the overall difference in sound that results if I bought and added one to my system. Does it just impact bass response or will it impact other sound qualities? Does Thiel still make the equalizers? Thanks for any insights.
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Another deliriously happy 3.5 owner here. I’m also a huge advocate of the equalizer. Interestingly, I used to own KEF Reference 107/2’s and pretty much hated what the KUBE equalizer did to them, essentially sitting on the sound terribly. The 107/2’s, not in the same class as the 3.5s in my view, sounded far better sans KUBE. It’s quite the reverse with the 3.5s.

The Thiel equalizer doesn’t interfere with the sonic character of the 3.5s and merely allows them to accurately plunge the Stygian depths, but only when recordings dip to 20HZ territory. The 107/2s sounded very colored in the low end, to these ears at least.