Thiel Owners


Guys-

I just scored a sweet pair of CS 2.4SE loudspeakers. Anyone else currently or previously owned this model?
Owners of the CS 2.4 or CS 2.7 are free to chime in as well. Thiel are excellent w/ both tubed or solid-state gear!

Keep me posted & Happy Listening!
jafant
jab - Audio Consultants is a very high quality dealer.

History time. Amberwood and Morado are related species which grow in Bolivia. They are routinely pirated by the Germans, taken overland via Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul to the Atlantic port of Santos and resold to Scandanavian furniture makers as Santos Rosewood. (It is neither a Rosewood, nor does it grow within thousands of miles of Santos.) Such are the ways of woods of the world. I traveled South America in the late 80s, establishing primary, ethical sources for our woods. Machaerium (sp) was established as our standard-exotic with the CS2.2 introduction in 1990. The locals distinguish the two Machaerium species which I roughly translated as Amberwood and Morado. The lighter-colored Amberwood grows upland on the dry eastern Andes steppes and is a little harder and more contrasty than the darker, more homogeneous Morado which grows lower in the Amazon headwaters jungles.

I co-developed a program with my supplier-partner Jim Martin whereby we sponsored (with the financial help of The Forestry Fund) a planting program with the Chiquitano People to co-plant Morado with Black Locust as a nitrogen-fixing nurse species. Shade coffee was interplanted within 3 years of launch and the project was net black ink within 5 years. It went on to become the backbone of the tribe's monitary stability, at at 75 years' climax will have produced over $3M/hectare of income. One benefit was that we (Thiel) got first dibs on the raw veneer, sliced in Bolivia, which we transported by water to the Port of Louisville, a commercial port on the Ohio River within 80 miles of Lexington.

We laid up our own veneer faces in speaker-pair sets and pressed onto MDF, etc. substrate rather than most folks' solution of buying pre-laminated panels as 4'x 8' panels and chopping their parts. Ever notice how Lex Thiels have every panel mirror-matched? The 4 pair-sides are identical sequence-matches and the back-top-fronts are veneered as a pair unit and cross-cut into 3 mirror-or bookmatched parts. I mention these details because the reviewers who comment only say something like 'the fronts of the two speakers matched'.

Back to the Chiquitano People. The University of Santa Cruz interfaced with the Chief who personally escorted us across the boundary swamps to work with the native project managers. Those swamps are infested with Piranha, Allegators and various big snakes. So when the guards hit you with Curare darts, there is no pesky body to hide. We chose the Chiquitano because of their protected generational custody of their land, factually safe from the intrusion of MacDonalds slash and burn farming. Poverty with Gringo beef practices is the root cause of tropical deforestation. When you buy Thiel Morado or Amberwood, you are buying a significant and unusual piece of integrated ethical policy. Much more to tell, but work beckons.
Tom --The story behind Morado and Amberwood that you relate is amazing and rich! I'm looking at the Amberwood finish on my 2.2s right now. Absolutely beautiful and amazing.

I have a question. The 3.7s are the models currently "in my system," and you mentioned in a previous post that the electronics had gone through several upgrades during the lifetime of the run. I have serial numbers 1041 and 1042. Are you able to speak to where these belong on that continuity? Or would Rob know about this?Todd
We chose the Chiquitano because of their protected generational custody of their land, factually safe from the intrusion of MacDonalds slash and burn farming. Poverty with Gringo beef practices is the root cause of tropical deforestation. When you buy Thiel Morado or Amberwood, you are buying a significant and unusual piece of integrated ethical policy.
That is fantastic! Yet another reason to own Thiel speakers!
Todd, I am piecing together a tapestry of facts, but Rob should have more direct knowledge. Please ask and report back.