Thiel Owners

Bought my 3.6s new in the mid '90s.  They still sound great.

They were my main speakers till 2001, then they were rotated to another room.  In 2015, I moved and stored them in their boxes.  I hope the low usage contributes to longer life.  I recently moved again, and they are now set up in a music room separate from my AV room.

They are fed by a pair of Pass X600s which seem to handle the 3.6s' impedance and phase challenges well.  This rig is particularly revealing for live jazz recordings -- puts me right in there.

My system consists of pretty old stuff. I quit upgrading when I couldn’t hear much difference anymore. Initially, I could learn to hear better so I could eventually hear improvements that I did not perceive before. But eventually, I reached the limit of what I am able to learn, so I stopped upgrading.

The music room system has a turntable, a sacd player, a tuner, and a cassette player. The TT has a Koetsu Rosewood Signature mated with a Graham Phantom (original) custom mounted on a VPI TNT HRX (the older HRX which normally came with a JMW arm). The disc player is a Sony SCD 1. The tuner is a Mac MR 78. The tape player is a Nakamichi Dragon. The preamp is a Pass X1. Interconnects are all AudioQuest AudioTruth Amazon, and speaker wires are AudioQuest AudioTruth Dragon. (I bought these when silver was still affordable.)

Everything is standard stock, unmodded, except the TT rig. I mentioned it in a post https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/vpi-tnt-hrx-table-what-tonearms/post?highlight=vpi%2Btnt%2Bhr...

I described the Pass amps driving a difficult load in another post https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/anybody-using-wilsons-or-soundlabs-with-pass-labs/post?highli....

Yeah, I drank the kool-aid too, and it was gooooood.