Check out these new Thiel transducers

[topspeed]

Thiel's new CS3.7 utilizes new proprietary transducers that look like aluminum ribbons wrapped in a circle. :yikes: The new woofer and passive radiator also sport new designs that, as noted in Stereophile, look like spinners off a hip-hopster's 'Slade (or a trash can lid, you pick). While Thiel speakers have never really done it for me, I've never denied the quality of their speakers or Jim Thiel's genius.

Working versions debuted at HE in LA recently, so if anybody here heard them, please share your impressions.

http://thielaudio.com/THIEL_Site05/PDF_files/PDF_product_lit/CS3_7preliminfo.pdf

http://www.1touchmovie.com/images/Thiel_CS3-7.jpg

[Woochifer]

Maybe it's me, but that thing looks like a jukebox! With these aluminum woofers, the design possibilities are endless. :skep:

This reminds me of the Manger Audio speakers, which also use metal transducers with a funky pattern design. Richard Hardesty, who used to write for both Widescreen Review and The Absolute Sound, wrote an unpublished listening impression of the Mangers at CES/T.H.E.Show last year, and said it was the most unlistenable speaker he tried out at the show. Those new Thiels should be interesting because they do resemble the Mangers, and in the past, that same reviewer has praised the Thiels.

http://www.manger-audio.co.uk/images/msw2.jpghttp://www.manger-audio.co.uk/images/msw1.jpg
http://www.manger-audio.co.uk/images/speakers.jpghttp://www.manger-audio.co.uk/images/msm.jpg
http://www.manger-audio.co.uk/manger-speakers.htm

[Florian]

Hey Wooch,

the new Thiels are very different then a bending wave Manger driver.

-Flo

PS: Magners are not my cup of tea, but are heavly dependend on room and electronics.

[Woochifer]

Hey Wooch,

the new Thiels are very different then a bending wave Manger driver.

-Flo

PS: Magners are not my cup of tea, but are heavly dependend on room and electronics.

I'm commenting more on the looks than anything -- these drivers visually seem to have more in common with hubcaps, jukeboxes, baking pans, and Tantric tattoos than anything having to do with audio.

[Florian]

I'm commenting more on the looks than anything -- these drivers visually seem to have more in common with hubcaps, jukeboxes, baking pans, and Tantric tattoos than anything having to do with audio.

Hehe, they sure look weird. But keep an open mind, audio is not tied to wodden coffins and same looking drivers ;-)

[N. Abstentia]

Man, get some of those bad boys and add one of these subwoofers:

http://66.165.152.114/LUCKY/COMBO/Audiobahn_12/Audiobahn_1251_X_1.jpg

And that would be HOT dawg!

[audio_dude]

hey wooch! nice new display pic :P

[Woochifer]

Hehe, they sure look weird. But keep an open mind, audio is not tied to wodden coffins and same looking drivers ;-)

Never said it was, but there is something strange about a driver that looks like it would be more at home in the kitchen than the living room. One minute it can play music, the next minute my wife can use it as a Jello mold or baking tin.

Yeah there's weird looking, and then there's WEIRD looking ...

http://www.oheocha.com/images/slideshow/060312_615.jpghttp://www.oheocha.com/upload/thumbnails/060411_110.jpg
http://www.oheocha.com

[jrhymeammo]

Never said it was, but there is something strange about a driver that looks like it would be more at home in the kitchen than the living room. One minute it can play music, the next minute my wife can use it as a Jello mold or baking tin.

Yeah there's weird looking, and then there's WEIRD looking ...

http://www.oheocha.com/images/slideshow/060312_615.jpghttp://www.oheocha.com/upload/thumbnails/060411_110.jpg
http://www.oheocha.com


NBC should start a new series of Friends..............

[MikeyBC]

Thiel's new CS3.7 utilizes new proprietary transducers that look like aluminum ribbons wrapped in a circle. :yikes: The new woofer and passive radiator also sport new designs that, as noted in Stereophile, look like spinners off a hip-hopster's 'Slade (or a trash can lid, you pick). While Thiel speakers have never really done it for me, I've never denied the quality of their speakers or Jim Thiel's genius.

Working versions debuted at HE in LA recently, so if anybody here heard them, please share your impressions.


The drivers kinda remind me if the wrinkled aluminum pie plates my mother-in-law makes my lemon marangue pies in. and they look kinda cool though. sorry i never heard them so no listening impressions from me.

[ThielCS37]

Some nice pictures :-).
I happen to own a pair of Thiel CS3.7. They put each instrument, each section of an orchestra, each performer squarely in our room. We don't just hear some "sound", we hear the instrument as it was played in the recording venue, wherever that may be. The "image" is so dense, our hearing can perceive the space around and behind the instruments, band or concert hall venue. Find a dealer that has a proper set-up and proper break-in and give it a listen. This is one very good pair of speakers.

[bfalls]

I haven't heard these, but Theil has always manufactured excellent sounding speakers. These are a dramatic departure from their sloped time-aligned speakers of the past. I'd definitely give them a listen, given the opportunity. I remember seeing these pictures a while back, so they've been out for some time. Anyone heard any from this line?

[Ajani]

I haven't heard them, but if I owned a pair of them, I'd definitely keep the grills on... those woofers look ugly.....

[bfalls]

Reminds me of R2D2 with "spinners".

[basite]

I haven't heard them, but if I owned a pair of them, I'd definitely keep the grills on... those woofers look ugly.....


the final version has nicer woofers in them...

I'll be auditioning them april 12 & 13 th

I'll post my impressions here, of course...


Keep them spinning,
Bert.