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In Reply to: Back in the day I was told, on excellent authority posted by John Marks on June 11, 2022 at 17:19:57:
My first Thiels were 2 2s and I found them to be slightly warm. I was reading over on the audiogon Thiel thread and someone mentioned this and Tom Thiel said it was true and that it was due to them being the first Thiels with the passive radiator and there was some sort of error in calculation or manufacturing that caused it. (I'm not 100% sure I'm remembering the cause correctly) It was popular with consumers but Jim always considered it a failure. I've had several Thiel models and didn't find any of them bright. The last speakers I owned that I considered bright were B&W nautilus line. I noticed that JA found the 2 2s bright but didn't think the same of the B&W Nautilus line and I lost all respect for his ability to evaluate speakers. Biased, deaf, paid, no idea but his opinions on audio lost all meaning. A lot of people like rolled off high frequency and that's fine. It's just a function of distance since highs diminish faster. Maybe Thiels can be bright with inadequate amplification or something but if you're looking for transparency at a price they're spectacular. They're not for extreme dynamics. Get something else for that. But for moderate scale unamplified music they're top of the class.
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